[TUHS] Re: Whither Workstations? (Was Re: Demise of AT&T)

[Warren Toomey via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>]

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COFF time for this as well.
Cheers, Warren 

On 28 May 2025 12:23:23 pm AEST, Luther Johnson <luther.johnson@makerlisp.com> wrote:
>and coffee makers, microwave ovens, automobile engine controllers, there's not much in the embedded world that is not ARM these days, of course RISC V wants to make zero-licensing cost inroads there
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>On 05/27/2025 07:19 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
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>> network switches, etc.
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>> On 05/27/2025 07:18 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
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>>> and wireless devices, hot spots ...
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>>> On 05/27/2025 07:16 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
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>>>> and thumb (USB) drives, and power banks, and probably anything you can connect via USB, like keyboards
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>>>> On 05/27/2025 07:13 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
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>>>>> There are tiny ARM processors in SD cards.
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>>>>> On 05/27/2025 03:42 PM, sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au wrote:
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>>>>>>> On 28 May 2025, at 00:52, Stuff Received <stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca> wrote:
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>>>>>>> Everyone forgets about embedded systems.  When I was still noodling, there were several RTOSes that were POSIX-certified (QNX and VxWorks, amongst others).  Of course, these ran on the higher end 32-bit MCUs, of which dozens exist in modern cars.  That medical stuff probably conforms to IEC 62304, regardless of its internals.
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>>>>>>> S.
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>>>>>> related:
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>>>>>> anyone on list know where all the ARM ‘CPUs’ (cores or multi-core chips?) get used?
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>>>>>> ARM, as the licenser, declared it licensed 250B “CPUs”  in 2024.
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>>>>>> We know 1-2B go into smartphones, perhaps another 250M into PC-like devices (250M is approx PC market)
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>>>>>> Where do the rest go?
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>>>>>> I’ve read some HDD’s use ARM processors, so a few billion there perhaps.
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>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design
>>>>>> 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
>>>>>> PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA
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>>>>>> mailto:sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin
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