• Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    UNIX in Bell Labs back in the 70’s might need $40,000 worth of hardware, today you can get an old Raspberry Pie for like $50.

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        10 months ago

        I haven’t fucked with a Raspberry pie in a long time, lol, I was just making a point. I don’t think they come with any storage so you still have to get like a $20 USB drive.

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          8 months ago

          128gb sd cards are ~$15 bucks from a reputable seller, but you don’t need one that big to run linux

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          10 months ago

          To be fair, Bell Labs’ 40,000$ computer probably didn’t come with any storage either.

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            10 months ago

            Those were the punch card days, storage was a lot different back then. Everything was running in the RAM, and rebooting took like a day to get everything running again.

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      10 months ago

      That would be an expensive pie. I also don’t know how it’s going to help me with running unix.

      The joke: The single board computer is called a Raspberry Pi