Hi Tony!   
      
   09 Oct 2016 13:47, from Tony Langdon -> Maurice Kinal:   
      
    MK>> Duron?  I ran across one of those back when they were the new kid   
    MK>> on the block and was highly unimpressed.  One of the most flakey   
    MK>> cpu's I have ever seen.   
    TL> It was an Athalon, if I recall.   
      
   Really?   
   I had a second gen Athlon (with integrated L2 cache as opposed to have it on a   
   slot form factor) and it actually was one of the best CPUs I ever had.   
   (together with a dual PPro that I bought cheap from my university)   
   It was the reason that Intel developed the P4.   
   There is a great talk of Bob Colwell about it. (He was the lead developer of   
   the Pentium Pro, and left Intel when the P4 was followed)   
      
    MK>> They've made a few turkeys.  However I am the same and have only   
    MK>> recently toyed with the idea of trying something different like   
    MK>> the more recent arm based such as raspi3 although I am starting   
    MK>> to shy away ... for now.   
    TL> I've had a lot of luck with the Pi series.  Even the earlier ones   
    TL> weren't bad. Haven't tried a Pi 3 yet, happy enough with the 2. :)   
      
   The I/O of the Raspberries is awful.   
   But they are indeed nice little computers.   
   I went from a number of 1bs to the 3b and left out 2 ;)   
      
   CU, Ricsi   
      
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