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| Subject | Re: Raspberry Pi 3? |
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| Date | 2016-06-10 09:41 -0700 |
| From | artie <artie.m@gNOSPAMmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Message-ID | <100620160941565915%artie.m@gNOSPAMmail.com> (permalink) |
| References | <njemf2$c9r$1@dont-email.me> |
In article <njemf2$c9r$1@dont-email.me>, gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> 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! > That's a four core processor with a GPU. Includes Wi-Fi and BlueTooth. It also includes all the power and frustration of a full blown Linux system, delivering a staggering number of bugs per cubic inch, sketchy unsupported software (oh, but it's "open source" so you can fix it yourself -- right), levels of obscure detail that should only be present in Byzantine monasteries, and error messages that make the ancient Greek Oracles seem transparent by comparison. Historical aside... At an ACM convention held in Anaheim CA in the early 1970's, a panel discussion included both Donald Knuth and Herb Grosch. Knuth got up and gave a glowing speech on the art we were bringing to the world, art coupled with science, leaving the audience feeling quite warm and fuzzy to be involved in such noble pursuits. Much self-congratulatory applause. Grosh got up, fuming, about ready to blow a gasket. He glared at Knuth. He looked at his notes in one hand and threw them over his shoulder. He looked out at the crowd and called out: "Gentlemen: we are not an art. We are not a science. We are someplace between a trade and a racket!" He sat down. The crowd roared. When someone mentions how much progress we've made, I think of Herb Grosch and that presentation.
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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
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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
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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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