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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by loeg on Saturday February 11, 2017 @01:29AM (#13621384)
There are people who think ARM SoCs with a few hundred MB of RAM are embedded systems. You can fit a lot of errors on that scale of embedded platform.
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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by imtringued on Saturday February 11, 2017 @01:04PM (#13623796)
Those are considered embedded because the intention is to just flash them with software like android once during the manufacturing process and then never update it.
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Re:Rust on AVR: Safer microcontrollers almost here by pjmlp on Sunday February 12, 2017 @06:19AM (#13627874)
Love the Android example regarding the update.
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