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From: John R Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Linix goes politics
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:06:04 +0000
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On 28/10/2024 17:38, Jasen Betts wrote:
> On 2024-10-26, Waldek Hebisch <antispam@fricas.org> wrote:
>> john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 05:55:57 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> C is cool, asm is cool too.
>>>> The rest? Sometimes I thing as there is less hardware knowledge by programmers
>>>> each of those tries to re-invent the wheel  but without in depth knowledge,
>>>> resulting an a bunch of silly 'languages', that will change in every new release.
>>>> That will never be secure...
>>>> And why all that code? US got to the moon and back with less power than a Raspberry PI version 1
>>>
>>> A Pi Pico has hundreds of times more compute power. Maybe thousands.
>>> For $7.50.
>>
>> Pi Pico is more powerful than the onboard computer.  But there were
>> also mainframes in ground support center.  Pico can perform more integer
>> instructions per second than those mainframes, but has less memory.
>> And mainframes had fast mass storage (drums and a disk farm).
>> Raspberry PI version 1 has more memory and SD-card has more bandwidth
>> than several mainframe disks.  OTOH I would avoid SD-card in mission
>> critical operations, so probably two Raspberries (two for reliablilty,
>> ground support mainframes also run in redundant configuration) with
>> external USB SSD discs...
> 
> Pi5 and attach server grade NVME storage
> 
Yes.  I have a couple of Pi5s each with a 1Tbyte NVMe card.  They are
very nice machines.  On the other hand, for only a little more there
are some cheap N100 machines which also have removable NVMe memory.
John