I wonder if these idiots know you can buy a second-hand laptop for less than half of that $40,000 and install Linux on it yourself
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In 1974?
With this technology?
At this time of year?
When it's this cold outsight?
Yes
Hell if you give me $10000, just a quarter of the initial amount, I could get you a brand new laptop and still have a few bucks to give you back as change.
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.
$50??? The Zero model costs like 15 dollars
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 $20 USB drive.
To be fair, Bell Labs' 40,000$ computer probably didn't come with any storage either.
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.
128gb sd cards are ~$15 bucks from a reputable seller, but you don’t need one that big to run linux
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
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.