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Some very small computers can talk VT100 over RS232.

• fsckboy 4y ago
  there's no problem with small computers talking over rs232, even a single bit wordsize (as on the original HP calculators) could pull it off, but thats moving the goalposts. i was replying to the context of embedded cpu chips that still to this day find it economical to not come with the required memory to hold the code for human interface niceties, because it was suggested that they didn't exist.
  • skybrian 4y ago
    You missed my point, actually. I wasn't suggesting a command-line shell that has autocomplete should run on the device. I was saying that you usually don't need any developer tools on the device at all. All you need is a way to upload firmware. All the developer tools can run on the laptop. You can run VSCode and work with tiny devices. This means that making developer tools small and simple to run on tiny devices has little point anymore, and languages don't need to be small and simple either.