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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by daeken on Saturday February 11, 2017 @01:23AM (#13621357)
That used to be the case, but as more functionality makes its way in (USB support, networking, etc) the attack surface grows substantially.

Right now not a lot of that goes on, but that's changing -- and fast.

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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by pjmlp on Saturday February 11, 2017 @02:51AM (#13621643)
A good example would be the ESP-32, powerful enough to run MS-DOS (520 KB hurray!), dual core with extra modern peripherals.

Which means every programming language we used to enjoy back in the day are possible to target such environment, assuming someone would bother to port them to it, that is.

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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday February 11, 2017 @09:27AM (#13622745)
I wonder whether it would be practical to write an emulator and actually run DOS et al. You'd lose some memory and speed, of course, but we might be powerful enough that it doesn't matter.
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