Well of course, there's heavy demand for those small SoC's for espionage applications and China PRC spends 50% of it's total governmental budget on ripping off everyone else.
It's kind of difficult to grow innovators in your society when your modus operandi is cutting off their heads if they like, you know, open their mouth and say anything... Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Keith Lofstrom Sent: Monday, July 14, 2025 6:03 PM To: King Beowulf <kingbeow...@linuxgalaxy.org> Cc: civil and on-topic <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> Subject: [PLUG] weird - cheap storage On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 02:24:24AM +0000, King Beowulf wrote: > It still feels weird to me how cheap storage has become. My first HD > out of pocket was 30 MB and cost ~$400 IIRC around '94? so I could > install Slackware and Win3.1/DOS dual boot. $2000 for a 60MB ST-506 SVR4 Unix drive years before that. That said, the human genome is about 1GB. My body has about 30 trillion copies of that data. Unkind people will argue that my personality is worth far less than $2000. For a WILD current data point, the smallest single chip processor with RAM and EPROM costs less than a penny in China, can probably run busybox, and is smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. Keith L. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
