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For a long time, I struggled with a similar view. The lines for this are blurring very fast though. Example - Amazon's kindle is more or less a single purpose s
by lifeeth_ 10y ago
For a long time, I struggled with a similar view. The lines for this are blurring very fast though. Example - Amazon's kindle is more or less a single purpose system - but runs linux, lasts for days on battery, has good RAM and a relatively powerful processor.
- davidw 10y agoOne useful metric is how far something is along the "general purpose computer - appliance" continuum. Something can be quite powerful with lots of resources, and still function as an appliance that people do a relatively restricted set of things with.