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It's kinda nutty to me that my thermostat has more RAM than my Windows XP laptop did 20 years ago. Based on the function it serves I'm actually kind of appalle

It's kinda nutty to me that my thermostat has more RAM than my Windows XP laptop did 20 years ago. Based on the function it serves I'm actually kind of appalled. It's a thermostat. You set the temperature and a schedule and it follows along. An ESP32 can do all the Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity you want with half a megabyte of RAM. Maybe you need a few megabytes for a framebuffer for the screen it has. But half a gigabyte?!

adave 4y ago
Yeah a lot more goes into the Device than what you would expect. It's not some RTOS base hack-a-day kind of product.
IceWreck 4y ago
Well if your thermostat or meeting room door sign runs an instance of chromium in kiosk mode to use HTML/CSS/JS for its UI then you need 2 gigabytes of RAM.