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The future of computers is only $4 away, with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

General Purpose Computers

There's been a long term towards replacing general purpose compute with appliance computes. And the existence of general purpose computing is not god give and right. It's a kind of a historical accident, is a path dependent historical accident. The pc and the mack are the only surviving examples of what used to be the way computers always were. i think crone book is an interesting example of an appliance which really is is being very successful at replacing a generalpurpose compute with appliance computers.

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