Hi Tim--

> Forget the cute but tiny Pi 3B+ running at a mere 1.4GHz with a puny
> 1Gb RAM. Feast your eyes upon the mighty Cavium ThunderX machine from
> avantek.co.uk. Whilst it is very configurable, a nice basic developer
> machine with a single 32-core v8 1.6GHz CPU, 32Gb RAM, half-gig SSD,
> Gb ethernet, FirePro graphics etc is a mere GBP 1850 - call it
> US$2500. For a comparison that's what ParcPlace paid in 1994 to get me
> a 70MHz ARM710 workstation with a colossal 4Mb ram.

     Wow, that's USD 4227 today[1]...


-C

[1] https://tinyurl.com/y8g8mqh2 (dollartimes.com)

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