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| From | Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.raspberry-pi |
| Subject | Re: Anybody out there? |
| Date | 2015-09-19 19:51 +0300 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mtk3m1$qe9$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <h7vtcc-m93.ln1@zuhause.moendjen.selfhost.eu> <mthlar$8ih$1@news.albasani.net> <mthnl8$rdb$1@dont-email.me> <1781635872464305228.334451mjmahon-aol.com@news.giganews.com> <mtjv7i$8fd$2@dont-email.me> |
On 19.9.15 18:35, rickman wrote: > On 9/18/2015 5:49 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote: >> rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 9/18/2015 2:31 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> On 18/09/15 18:45, Norbert Möndjen wrote: >>>>> F8BOE wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> The RPi or even the RPi2 as a full featured computer... You can >>>>>> forget it! >>>>>> The RPi2 with Ubuntu Mate is slower than my P III 800MHz 512MB RAM >>>>>> (Dell >>>>>> GX110) running Mageia... OK wrong example... Perhaps. >>>>> >>>>> I have been grown up with zx81, cpc64, commodores c64, amigas and >>>>> all that >>>>> stuff. Yes they was full fetured computers which have done a lot of >>>>> work. >>>>> Even the first PCs on 8088 or 8086 Basis have done a lot of work and >>>>> would >>>>> be still able to do most of the buisness nowerdays. That people get so >>>>> stupid and lost there imagination so far that they need for every >>>>> small shit >>>>> a graphical help is a pitty. Up til now nobody could tell me why I >>>>> need for >>>>> EMail, Calculations, Texting or similar things a graphical System. >>>>> Infact >>>>> with a Standardeditor and a bit of Tex I am finished in a tenth of the >>>>> time. >>>>> Yes I am now using a full featured computer with all the shiny things >>>>> just >>>>> for fun. But I am working in the embedded computing area and trust me >>>>> what >>>>> we are doing with hardware which is even less powerfull than the >>>>> raspberry >>>>> is astonishing. 2018 we will start a programm to launsch 900 >>>>> satelittes to >>>>> put cheap internet all over the world. Each satelitte must be below >>>>> 50Kg and >>>>> have a powerconsumption below 20W. That is a call for embedded >>>>> computing. >>>>> :-) >>>>> >>>>> Ciao Nobbe >>>>> >>>> +1000 >>>> A PDP/11 could have been outperformed by an 8086 with 128Mbyte of >>>> RAM if >>>> it had had Unix on it... >>>> >>>> And IIRC those PDPS are still there controlling all sorts of industrial >>>> kit. >>> >>> I think that is a bit of a stretch. The last PDP11 I saw was on a piece >>> of electronic assembly equipment going to the dump some 10 years ago. >> >> Probably true for electronic assembly equipment; less true for paper >> mills... >> >> There are still stories of Apple II's being used in process control >> and lab >> automation--and even the occasional veterinary office. ;-) >> >> "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." > > How do they fix them when they *do* break? No computer runs forever. I > can't see how the Nuke plants could be running on PDP11s. They haven't > been made for decades. Where do they get their spares? You need some bars of TTL. In an emergency, most can be replaced with 74HCT's. A stiffer problem is if somebody breaks a panel switch. A couple of years ago, I was summoned to a paper mill to mend their PDP-11. The cure was one 74LS00. It seemed that the biggest problem was to find somebody still remembering and understanding the computer. -- -TV
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