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Absolutely. I can remember running a full-blown UNIX in 70 megabytes of hard drive. Try doing that today. <grin> But who knows whether some version of Linux ca
by simonblack 3y ago
Absolutely. I can remember running a full-blown UNIX in 70 megabytes of hard drive. Try doing that today. <grin>
But who knows whether some version of Linux can't be run on an Arduino if that Linux version can be cut down enough?
There were some versions of Linux that used to fit on a couple of floppies, or maybe even just one floppy. Or am I thinking of something similar like QNX?
- hnlmorg 3y agoA floppy disk is also larger than the memory on an Arduino. The Due, for example, has the following specs: > 96KB SRAM, 512KB flash Source: https://docs.arduino.cc/hardware/due https://docs.arduino.cc/hardware/due (And that’s one of the beefier boards!)
- simonblack 3y ago<grin> Back in the early 8-bit days, any RAM greater than 64K and disk-based storage more than about 100K was 'looxery,lad!'.
- hnlmorg 3y agoI grew up on them machines as well (plus ones with less than 64K too). I still have my Amstrad CPC 464 plugged in :) Those machines also famously couldn’t run anything more powerful than CP/M. Let alone something as heavy as Linux.