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Re: Raspberry Pi 3?

From	"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Raspberry Pi 3?
Date	2016-06-10 11:23 -0500
Message-ID	<ds07s7Fhoe0U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<njemf2$c9r$1@dont-email.me>

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"gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" wrote:

> Just been perusing this and marvelling that for £35  /  $35 you get a quad 
> core
> 64 bit ARM architecture and aslo studying the ARM documentation
> for that architecture makes me wonder whether the things we discuss here
> should get the NG renamed to alt.pointless.nostalgia?  :-)
>
> It's flabbergasting that 1Gb or RAM and a 64-bit floating point processor
> is available for 1/10th of weekly take-home pay instead of the 500 years
> worth of take home pay it would have cost to get such power in the 1960s.
>
> Wow!

500 years is not enough.

1GB is 222e6 36-bit words.  A large main frame had 262K words and no off the 
shelf computer would meet the need.  It would have to be a one off, a la 
government funded Larc or Stretch.  Because of cable length problems you 
would need several adjacent floors in an office building so you could model 
a sphere, to minimize cable lengths.

Lunch is ready so I can't finish this; but consider the net access time of 
an infinitely fast RAM at the end of a cable of a few hundred feet.

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Raspberry Pi 3? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-06-10 16:30 +0100
  Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-06-10 11:23 -0500
  Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-06-10 12:36 -0400
  Re: Raspberry Pi 3? artie <artie.m@gNOSPAMmail.com> - 2016-06-10 09:41 -0700
    Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-06-10 18:00 +0100
    Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-10 18:31 +0100
    Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-06-10 18:03 +0000
      Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-06-10 11:28 -0700
      Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-06-11 10:33 -0500
        Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 14:04 -0400
          Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-06-12 09:39 -0500
    Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2016-06-11 08:01 +0100
  Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-10 17:52 +0100
    Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-06-10 18:03 +0100
      Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-10 19:04 +0100
  Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-06-10 19:18 +0000
    Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 20:56 -0400
      Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-06-11 11:04 +0200
        Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-06-11 10:47 +0000
        Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 07:51 -0400
      Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-06-11 10:44 +0000
    Re: Raspberry Pi 3? mausg@mail.com - 2016-06-11 10:06 +0000
      Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-06-11 12:50 +0200
        Re: Raspberry Pi 3? mausg@mail.com - 2016-06-12 08:48 +0000
          Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-06-12 09:37 -0500
            Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-06-12 09:46 -0700
              Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-06-12 09:51 -0700
              Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-06-14 13:07 -0700
            Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-06-12 18:51 +0200
              Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-12 17:04 -0400
            Re: Raspberry Pi 3? mausg@mail.com - 2016-06-13 08:04 +0000
              Re: Raspberry Pi 3? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-06-13 10:00 +0100
      Re: Raspberry Pi 3? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 12:32 -0500

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