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good Prop2 gets more than 8 cores ...

MJBMJB Posts: 1,235
edited 2014-08-18 22:04 in Propeller 2
just stumbled over this:

pcDuino8 (Beta) is a high performance, cost effective single board computer.
It runs operation systems such as Ubuntu Linux and Android.
pcDuino8 is powered by an octa-core Allwinner A80 application processor.
http://www.pcduino.com/pcduino8-beta-available-application/

and another example how embracing ARDUINO can help entry to a HUGE market.

Comments

  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-15 08:27
    Except that is not any kind or Arduino.
  • Hal AlbachHal Albach Posts: 747
    edited 2014-08-15 08:29
    For the time being only if they consider you worthy...
    "pcDuino8 (beta) is currently with limited quantiy. Please email pcduino@linksprite.com with a project description and your cutedigi account ID. If you qualify, pcDuino team will mail you back a coupon code to order at $129.00."
  • markmark Posts: 252
    edited 2014-08-15 09:41
    Much closer to a Raspi or Beaglebone than an Arduino.
  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,173
    edited 2014-08-15 15:01
    [QUOTE=mark
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-16 13:09
    jmg,

    What is this "Linux-brick" of which you speak?

    I can imagine that Intel can run Linux as well as the ARM or MIPS or Power PC SoC machines I have used. If they can do it as cheaply, in such a small space and for such low power consumption remains to be seen. I look forward to checking them out.

    But yes, certainly not an Arduino.
  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,173
    edited 2014-08-17 19:05
    Heater. wrote: »
    What is this "Linux-brick" of which you speak?
    The expression may not be as language portable as I assumed.
    'Linux-brick'; here is simply shorthand for "small PCB module with chips able to run xyz Linux"
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2014-08-17 20:14
    "language portable"

    Ok, I think that's funny and excellent at the same time. Well played. :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-18 03:58
    jmg,
    The expression may not be as language portable as I assumed.
    You are right about that. I'm just wondering where your ported it from. Or is it your own language "fork"?

    Having been reading all kinds of things in the computing world for decades. And having been in involved with developing with and for many "small PCB module with chips able to run xyz Linux" for nearly a decade I have never heard them referred to as "linux-brick".

    To make things more confusing "brick" is commonly used as a term for what you have when an embedded device like those "small PCB modules..." suffers some error during the updating of it's firmware causing the update to fail and the bootloader to be rendered inoperable such that it can no longer be reprogrammed. Essentially becoming a useless "brick". As in "I bricked my Android phone with a bad update", "How do unbrick my D-LINK router after screwing up the OpenWRT installation?"

    "brick" is not generally a good thing. "linux-brick" sounds like a derogatory term for a Linux running module.

    Google knows nothing much about "Linux brick" although I found this:
    http://gizmodo.com/5440702/marvell-plug-computer-30-the-tiny-linux-brick which in context makes sense as it is kind of brick shaped, not just a board, and can probably be "bricked":)

    Anyway, never mind, as you were.


    Edit: Strangely whilst looking for common usage of "linux brick" the second thing I find is a forum thread discussing exactly this confusion from 2009 : http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=529828 People there assumed it was a derogatory term as well...

  • SeairthSeairth Posts: 2,474
    edited 2014-08-18 09:49
    Heater. wrote: »
    Edit: Strangely whilst looking for common usage of "linux brick" the second thing I find is a forum thread discussing exactly this confusion from 2009 : http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=529828 People there assumed it was a derogatory term as well...

    When I hear "linux-brick", I hear it like "runs linux in much the same way that bricks don't". :)
  • markmark Posts: 252
    edited 2014-08-18 14:14
    Seairth wrote: »
    When I hear "linux-brick", I hear it like "runs linux in much the same way that bricks don't". :)

    Or perhaps the way a brick *would*

    http://hackaday.com/2012/03/28/building-the-worst-linux-pc-ever/
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-08-18 22:04
    Exactly.

    Wikipedia knows of course http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)

    " ...describes an electronic device such as a smart phone, game console, router, or tablet computer that, due to a serious misconfiguration, corrupted firmware, or a hardware problem, can no longer function."

    Ergo a "linux-brick" is something that is should be able to run Linux but is non-functional. Hence my confusion at the use of the term above where is seemed like a derogatory term.
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