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You ever wrote firmware for a wireless sensor that fits in 16k of flash?

• pjmlp 3y ago
  My first computer developing software was a Timex 2068. Have you ever produced commercial software for 8 bit machines?
  • Gibbon1 3y ago
    8 bits yes. But can't actually care about the register size of the uP I use. Currently it's ARM. What's important is the RAM and ROM limitations. Plus meeting latency deadlines. Power requirements. That the program never gets shut down for years. That there will be no one to intervene when something goes wrong. Current product I work on has shipped a few million units. If someone needs to replace one that's failed it costs more than the unit itself. It'd been nice not to use C. Be nice if C had a few improvements to make it more ergonomic and safer.