its obvious James don't know anything about CPU's -------- Original Message -------- On Mar 22, 2018, 4:24 AM, < jamesd@echeque.com> wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:22:09AM +1000, jamesd@echeque.com wrote: >> I have therefore purchased some 64 bit Orange Pi PC2s running Ubuntu 16.04 >> server, for a ridiculously affordable computer cluster. On 3/22/2018 6:10 PM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > Are these non-capitalist systems? Genuinely commies CPUs? Not cloned > reversed chips? About 30-40 years ago the commie block cloned Apple II > and Intel 8086 in own chips and the computers worked. Communism is what the party says communism is - which these days is a good deal more capitalist than the US. The original CPU design was purchased from the US, but a variety of chip makers have been improving on the design in a variety of ways, so it is not US cloned, but is US descended - rather distantly descended by now.