I've been doing embedded my whole career. ESP 32 is my retirement toy. Lots of C, forth and ASM. I still can't write a python app.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM Wayne S <[email protected]> wrote: > I did 8080 programming and had 16kb to play with. > I thought there would never be a program large enough that 1mb was needed. > Hah > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Sep 10, 2025, at 13:41, Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Sep 10, 2025, at 1:34 PM, Jim Davis via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Yep, 16 bits, or even 32 seemed like a lot, If you're writing asm, It > is. > >> But like you alluded to, it's not good enough for the stuff we expect > today, > > > > That depends a lot on what sort of "stuff" you work with. > > > > For various fun projects I use the Raspberry Pico, which is a 32 bit > microcontroller with 1/4 or 1/2 MB of RAM, which is quite a lot. But a > bunch of that work uses the PIO engines -- basically programmable state > machines that talk to the I/O pins. Those have 16 bit instructions, and a > 32 word program memory. No data RAM, just a couple of registers. Quite > powerful, though. One application is the DDCMP controller I published a > while ago. I'm thinking about making it talk Ethernet in software as the > next exercise... > > > > paul > > >
