From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:51:13 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <20120717175113.6ce22c1b@vardo.ethans.dre.am> In-Reply-To: <1342446560.3514.133.camel@wes-HP-Pavilion-g7-Notebook-PC> References: <201206171720.q5HHKZSl015160@freefriends.org> <75a40a79-2828-47c3-9b76-76f3dcf1e9ea@googlegroups.com> <1342446560.3514.133.camel@wes-HP-Pavilion-g7-Notebook-PC> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs Topicbox-Message-UUID: a1c54f8c-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:49:20 -0400 Wes Kussmaul 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.