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  Raspberry Pi 3 launched Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-02-28 23:39 -0800
    Re: Raspberry Pi 3 launched mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-02-29 05:53 -0800

#45749 — Raspberry Pi 3 launched

Not really a Forth topic but people here seem to care about this stuff:

   https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale

Features:

- quad core 1.2 Ghz 64-bit A53 processor, supposedly 10x speed of RPi-1
  supposedly runs 32-bit code 50-60% faster than RPi-2.  NEON is
  possibly a lot faster than that.
- Integrated 802.11n wifi and Bluetooth 4.1
- $35 retail, same as RPi-2 which stays at same price (huh?).  Pi-3
  is intended to replace the pi-2.
- Same connector layout as before, but they had to move the LEDs
- Power hungrier than ever, they suggest a 2.5 amp 5 volt adapter
  for running USB devices
- Currently uses same 32-bit OS as before, but they will shift to 64
  when they get the software together
- Supposedly available now from RS, Allied, and Element 14 but
  I don't see them on those web sites right now, and would expect
  low availability for a while, as with previous models.  It's still
  quite difficult to get a Pi Zero.

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On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 11:39:47 PM UTC-8, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Not really a Forth topic but people here seem to care about this stuff:
> 
>    https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale
> 
> Features:
> 
> - quad core 1.2 Ghz 64-bit A53 processor, supposedly 10x speed of RPi-1
>   supposedly runs 32-bit code 50-60% faster than RPi-2.  NEON is
>   possibly a lot faster than that.
> - Integrated 802.11n wifi and Bluetooth 4.1
> - $35 retail, same as RPi-2 which stays at same price (huh?).  Pi-3
>   is intended to replace the pi-2.
> - Same connector layout as before, but they had to move the LEDs
> - Power hungrier than ever, they suggest a 2.5 amp 5 volt adapter
>   for running USB devices
> - Currently uses same 32-bit OS as before, but they will shift to 64
>   when they get the software together
> - Supposedly available now from RS, Allied, and Element 14 but
>   I don't see them on those web sites right now, and would expect
>   low availability for a while, as with previous models.  It's still
>   quite difficult to get a Pi Zero.

Last Sat.27.FEB.2016 I saw a Raspberry Pi by taking a #545 bus 
from downtown Seattle out to the Microsoft campus in Redmond. 
I had grown tired over the last two years of sleeping on a 
pile of carboard boxes topped by a mattress, and a relative 
of mine whose house I helped build near Microsoft was giving 
me a bunkbed (the top half of which I gave to my Russian 
translator :-) and a Mentifex AI Lab desk and other stuff. 

Now I need a code-name for the gamer geek who showed me 
the Raspberry Pi. How about Gamer-Geek? So Gamer-Geek had 
an elaborate multi-computer set-up in the same basement 
where I lived for two weeks three years ago, in AUG 2013. 

G-G has been learning not Forth or Perl, but C++ and I asked 
him what programming languages would run on the Raspberry Pi. 
He indicated that there was a large number of them. I said 
that I would like to get my MindForth AI and my other AI's 
to run on robots, with sensory inputs. Gamer-Geek said that 
there is a video camera available for the Raspberry Pi, 
but not with very high quality. I told him that I had 
heard that there was a new Raspberry Pi just out now, 
but Geekster had not yet heard of it. So thanks for 
confirming the rumor that I heard about elsewhere.

Arthur
-- 
http://ai.neocities.org/P6AI_FAQ.html 
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GX2B8F0 
http://www.nlg-wiki.org/systems/Mind.Forth 
http://www.sourcecodeonline.com/details/ghost_perl_webserver_strong_ai.html 

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