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kjs3last Thursday at 4:36 PM1 replyview on HN

You need 16 cores and 16MB+ of memory to control a toaster? A water heater? The washing machine? At the cheapest possible BoM and low power usage?

Because that's the kind of stuff an 8-bit micro does.


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glouwbuglast Thursday at 4:50 PM

No one dreamed of controlling a toaster with an 8 bit CPU in 1969

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