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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by ngangaga on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @08:20AM (#43972092)
We aren't talking numbers, though. Who cares about embedded? I mean that literally. This is computation invisible by design. If that were sufficient we wouldn't have smartphones.
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Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by rescbr on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @11:58AM (#43974353)
In a way, and for a long time, smartphones were/are defined as embedded devices.

I still don't see how one can classify a smartphone as a general-purpose computing device, even though they have enough computing power as a laptop.

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