Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:49:20 -0400
Wes Kussmaul <wes@authentrus.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 08:44 +0000, opryymak@gmail.com wrote:
> > Another neat comparison of 44 tiny devices:
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4035896/a320_downloads/SBC_comparison44.pdf
>
> No mention of the $16 Teensy?  http://www.pjrc.com/

It's an 8-bit, what are you going to put on it, CP-M? ;) Granted, some
of the old 8-bit OSs can be quite nice. I really like the one in the
Atari 800, it has a really unified device interface, but it's no Plan 9.

Actually I've toyed with the idea of a "Plan 9 from 8-bit space". It
would be a fun challenge, I think, and I'd be interested to find
exactly what compromises would be needed. It may even be less of a
challenge than writing drivers for the crap peripherals ARM SOCs always
seem to be burdened with, but what could you do with it when it was
done?

>
> ...or the Arduino?

An overpriced and underpowered member of a class of devices that are
far short of running Plan 9 in the first place. And why on Earth is it
programmed in C++?


--
This is obviously some strange usage of the
word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.