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From: ray carter <ray@zianet.com>
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Subject: Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time?
Date: 19 Jul 2015 21:14:05 GMT
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 10:54:02 -0700, pureheart wrote:

> Hi.
> After reading up a bit on the Raspberry Pi, single board computer, I
> wonder if anyone is using such a thing as their daily machine and how it
> fares, if so.
> 
> There end up to be a *lot* of SBC's out there, but specifically, I'm
> thinking about some like:
> Raspberry Pi 2 Banana pi Beaglebone Black Hummingboard
> 
> One of these with a solid state drive (I assume that's what SATA means
> in the specs of all these things....a drive connector....I'm way behind
> on my acroynyms and still don't know what DPMI stands for w/o a look at
> a search engine).
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> pH

The main purpose of such devices, at least for most folks, is to provide 
a system with access to the I/O pins.