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On 2016-06-10, 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.

From time to time I glance at a 16GB SD card and reflect that it holds
a thousand times the theoretical memory limit for large IBM 360 machines
(theoretical because not even the largest installations could affort it).
Or that the price of disk storage has fallen by seven orders of magnitude
in that time - and that the above SD card holds more than all the disks
in a large installation of the time.

> 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.

At least it doesn't have a Registry.  Nor do the error messages say
things like "Your program cannot run for some reason."  That's right -
"for some reason".  Copied straight from my wife's Macbook.

> 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.

Good story.  And that was before Microsoft even existed.

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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
        Re: Raspberry Pi 3? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 14:04 -0400
          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
              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
      Re: Raspberry Pi 3? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-06-11 12:32 -0500

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