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jandreseyesterday at 8:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

While the CPU is a better fit than the 8 bit contemporaries, the 16kb of working memory is going to be a struggle.


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SoftTalkeryesterday at 9:15 PM

It's cool because the registers are all in RAM, with a "workspace pointer" on the CPU pointing at where they are. This is slow, but a context switch is just changing that pointer.

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MBCookyesterday at 9:13 PM

Yeah it really was an interesting choice on their part. Makes sense as a move for TI. Not the target market.