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ckocagil • today at 1:55 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

They're not single board computers. They're microcontrollers. Or rather they were until this new chip was introduced.


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serf • today at 2:09 PM

>they're not single board computers.

what's the meaningful distinction now? It isn't all SoC anymore and it has had a linux capable MMU since S3, even if it required a lot of work.

The only real difference at this point is pure numbers, and i'm not that keen on defining microcontrollers as "those things with less ram than an SBC.", and if it's a microcontroller because it requires bare-metal flashes; well then I point to the older S3 MMU boards running busybox.

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