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in 666136 20160610 174156 artie <artie.m@gNOSPAMmail.com> wrote:
>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.

Oh dear, frustrated Microsoft fan?
I have 8 RPis, of varying marks, and all are doing useful work, day after day.

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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
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      Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-06-11 10:33 -0500
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    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
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