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Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> writes:
> I am returning the Raspberry Pi as I got this instead. It is 1/2 the
> price of the rPi.
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014Q5EQOK

The BBB is a real nice board but that offer is a bit suspicious:

1) $29 is a very low price for a 4gb Beaglebone Black (BBB).  They are
$50+ from regular distributors.  The older 2gb version (note this is the
amount of on-board flash; they all have 512MB ram) was $40+.

2) it claims the board is qualified for industrial temp range, but I
don't think Circuitco ever supported that.  There was some talk of an
alternate version but I don't know if it happened.  So I wonder if
you're getting some weird clone.  Have you already received it and tried
it out?  Did it come in Circuitco packaging?

Also: the RPI2 is $35 from the official distributor (Element14.com)
though you have to add shipping and an SD card.

The BBB is in many ways a better and more serious board than the RPi's,
but it's older than the current Pi's and is way behind the Pi2 in cpu
performance because of the Pi2's quad core cpu.  The Pi2 also has 2x as
much ram.  I don't know how much you care about this.

There is a new, faster Beagleboard in the works, but it will be much
fancier and more expensive than the BBB.

The BBB's main ARM processor doesn't seem that interesting as a Forth
host, since it's just another Linux board.  However, the chip has a pair
of realtime coprocessors (PRU's) that would be cool to program in Forth.
Right now the tool situation for them is pretty weak, from what I understand.

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Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 09:01 -0800
  Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 09:44 -0800
    Re: Xmas Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 20:55 +0200
      Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 11:03 -0800
  Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 14:10 -0500
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 11:36 -0800
    Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 14:54 -0500
    Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 16:47 -0800
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 13:01 -0800
    Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 13:15 -0800
      Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 21:20 -0800
        Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 22:11 -0800
          Re: Xmas Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-12-24 11:52 +0000
    Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 16:26 -0500
      Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 18:20 -0800
        Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 21:45 -0500
          Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 19:29 -0800
    Re: Xmas hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-12-23 19:45 -0800
      Re: Xmas Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 22:46 -0800
        Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 23:22 -0800
        Re: Xmas hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-12-26 16:41 -0800
        Re: Xmas Waldek Hebisch <hebisch@antispam.uni.wroc.pl> - 2015-12-30 01:55 +0000
          Re: Xmas hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-12-30 19:27 -0800
            Re: Xmas Waldek Hebisch <hebisch@antispam.uni.wroc.pl> - 2016-01-01 18:13 +0000
      Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 11:13 -0800
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-23 21:33 -0800
    Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-23 22:14 -0800
  Xmas Mikael Nordman <oh2aun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-24 04:25 -0800
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 21:32 -0800
    Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 01:07 -0500
    Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-26 22:10 -0800
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 23:43 -0800
    Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 10:56 -0500
      Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 09:01 -0800
        Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 12:31 -0500
          Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-27 09:59 -0800
  Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 15:56 -0800
    Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-27 16:14 -0800
      Re: Xmas Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 17:58 -0800
    Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 19:58 -0500
      Re: Xmas Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-27 18:07 -0800
      Re: Xmas jim.brakefield@ieee.org - 2015-12-27 18:59 -0800
        Re: Xmas rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 22:26 -0500

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