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Crack0n7uesday , 8 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.

Scrollone , 8 months ago

$50??? The Zero model costs like 15 dollars

Crack0n7uesday , 8 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.

Evkob , 8 months ago

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

Crack0n7uesday , 8 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.

aBundleOfFerrets , 7 months ago

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

riodoro1 , 8 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

Ilgaz , 8 months ago

That $40K is way more than it seems and it is still cheap. To give an idea about the cutting edge hardware prices back in the day, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2250?wprov=sfla1

The price you are reading is correct, $2M today. That is what happens when you want 1024×1024 display and pointing device like that NSA spy girl.

I think one should compare it to an entry level AIX/Power system or HP/UX. Apple does still have certified UNIX OS too.