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Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-13 13:36 (#2V1N)

Does anyone have any insight into whether the BB really predates the RaspberryPi? That was a surprise to me.

Re: Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 3, Informative)

by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-11-13 14:34 (#2V1S)

I was surprised as well.

According to Wikipedia the release date of the original Beagleboard was July 28 2008. Raspberry Pi was released in February 2012.
RasPi came almost four years later!!!

I think that lots of people (including me) didn't hear about the BB until after the release of the RasPi. Hence the wrong assumption.

Re: Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 2, Insightful)

by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-13 14:39 (#2V1V)

Shows again how important a good marketing is. One can only speculate, but the BB would most likely be still widely unknown without the RasPi,

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