That, to me, is one of the defining features of a general-purpose computer. Can I develop software for it, with it? Perhaps it might not be pleasant, if the ha

That, to me, is one of the defining features of a general-purpose computer. Can I develop software for it, with it? Perhaps it might not be pleasant, if the hardware isn't very powerful - looking at 20 lines of code on a netbook screen, or waiting for the serial communication to catch up to my terminal on the embedded board - but it makes it a tool with which you can do real work. Tablets and phones don't count yet. Edit: Yes, I am aware of the SSH clients, with which you can connect to a remote server, do the development there, and download the resulting app. But the remote server is the general-like computer there, just as the PC running the terminal is not the primary machine in some embedded development.