alt Hacker News> For its price, the ESP32-S3 is a powerhouse of a microcontroller.
Indeed, don't forget it is more powerful than computers like this one,
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That was my exact first computer with the CGA graphics, GEM Desktop, Locomotive Basic etc. All the software came in 4 360KB diskettes. The diskettes had each it's own beautiful color. There were 3 sample Basic programs that seemed to me quite advanced. One sample was a document management system. Another was a drawing program where you could draw with a mouse. Didn't know that GEM Desktop was made by Digital Reasearch. It was a very good windowing system. I believe it was based on MS-DOS. There was also a CP/M OS. So much software in only 1.2MB.
We will see the day your toothbrush has more compute than the original IBM PC.
You can quite literally run Doom on it. This isn't new either; here's a video from 8 years ago demonstrating that, and the author mentions not being the first person to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6PP_IBbOTY
Newer models like the ESP32-P4 are substantially more powerful, running dual cores and with all sorts of computational acceleration built in.