This one has been making the rounds. Three cool things oft overlooked: 1) Its double-retro in the sense that the 86duino is a decade old, so you've got the re

This one has been making the rounds. Three cool things oft overlooked: 1) Its double-retro in the sense that the 86duino is a decade old, so you've got the retro dos under the retro hardware in 2022 almost 2023. Cool! 2) The 86duino is a window into an alternate history where "something desktop-ish" got wedged into the existing Arduino form factor and electronic API, kind of, whereas IRL we all know the RasPi did its own thing. Its not as simple as "a Pi in the shape of an arduino mega or uno" but conceptually its like that. Sometimes in the real world, backward compatibility with The Standard just doesn't sell in the marketplace. 3) There was a time in the early days of the 86duino where you could buy "arduino form factor boards" with memory sizes ranging from individual bytes up to a fraction of a gig on the 86duino. I think this might be the widest range in the entire history of computing. IBM's 360 series and DEC's numerous PDP8 implementations never came close to this range. It would be like having the Wright Flyer and the SR-71 in commercial production and sale at the same time. The closest analogy I can come up with would be 1970s ham radio equipment where you had some people selling vacuum tube kits/gear and some people selling microprocessor driven kits/gear (well, toward the very end of the 70s...) both on the market at the same time. Sometimes tech moves faster than business, most times it doesn't.