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Open Hardware and Retro/Old: Orange Pi, HP/PA, and More
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Linux Gizmos ☛ Orange Pi Unveils Hey Hi (AI) Station with Ascend 310 and 176 TOPS Compute
Orange Pi closes the year by unveiling new details about the Orange Pi Hey Hi (AI) Station, a compact board-level edge computing platform built around the Ascend 310 series processor. The system targets high-density inference workloads with large memory options, NVMe storage support, and extensive I/O in a small footprint.
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Undeadly ☛ Miod talks about HP/PA boot blocks
Veteran OpenBSD developer Miod Vallat (miod@) has written another deep dive article on porting our favorite operating system to a new platform and maintaining the code, this time the OpenBSD/hppa platform.
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Ruben Schade ☛ Old computer monitor stands, and DAISO!
This was an advantageous arrangement for a few reasons. They were cheaper to manufacturer and ship, because you were only building, packaging, and sending off a single unit. This also made them more portable, and reduced the amount of assembly required when at home. That is, until you needed additional peripherals and disk drives with their associated power bricks and data cables, something laptop operators would also learn the hard way many years later. But I digress.