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Re:Arm Announces Cortex-R82: First 64-Bit Real Time Processor by als0 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:26AM (#24406689)
Disk controllers have been "smart" for the last 15 years. There's just a desire to run Linux instead of a barebones RTOS.
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Re:Arm Announces Cortex-R82: First 64-Bit Real Time Processor by StillBored on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:54AM (#24409624)
Lot longer than 15 years. There were ISA SCSI controllers that had micro-controllers which could be programmed at some level. The symbios SCRIPTS come to mind which were common on the 53Cxx controllers.

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/96635/Lsi-Symbios-Sym8953u...

This has continued on raid/fibre/nvmeof/etc boards.

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