Re: OT: Linix goes politics

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...

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