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Re:Lisp Badge: A single-board computer that you can program ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:16PM (#23739746)
> We need more little systems that are somewhere between underpowered Arduinos and entire Linux systems.

That's not a lot of gap; openwrt is tiny and "embedded" boards grow more powerful every year. Every time I see a new board, one of my first questions is, "does it have enough RAM+flash for Linux?" and we're getting close - if the teensy 4.1 had a touch more ram it'd work (well, uclinux, but still).

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Re:Lisp Badge: A single-board computer that you can program ... by Animats on Sunday July 05, 2020 @02:58PM (#23740987)
It's not the hardware, it's the headaches. A Linux system needs a lot of stuff, which offers a big attack surface. Real-time OSs have less excess baggage.
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Re:Lisp Badge: A single-board computer that you can program ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday July 05, 2020 @03:23PM (#23741159)
Okay, so use micropython or such; we're closing the gap from all sides.
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