On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:13 PM, e.stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> [ actually a lot of good stuff] ;-)
Thank you.
25+ years
later, how far have uber-fast machines with uber-large and
uber-cheap storage really gotten us?
That's why I love to embedded stuff. And even here, any "reasonable" Real
Time OS of today, can't really boot with 48 kbytes of memory.
That brings to mind the assertions from Apple and Microsoft in the
mid-1980s - that you "needed" 2MB of memory to multitask. Over a
dozen simultaneously-updating "dotty windows" on a 256K A1000 was
simple proof that there was another way.
Progress I guess ;-)
Of a sort, I guess ;-)
-ethan