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> 1500 milliwatts is still several orders of magnitude more power than I think a personal computer needs, and 16MiB is obviously a couple of orders of magnitude
by nine_k 2y ago
> 1500 milliwatts is still several orders of magnitude more power than I think a personal computer needs, and 16MiB is obviously a couple of orders of magnitude more RAM.
So, your idea is a computer with less than 200 kiB of RAM? So, devices like a PC AT 286 or Amiga A2000, with their whole 1 MiB RAM, are hopelessly overpowered, and the right kind of a machine is something like a Sinclair Spectrum?
- kragen 2y agoAn adequate kind, not "the right kind". Flash is a lot faster than electromechanical disks, so you can get by with less RAM.
- nine_k 2y agoFair! These guys run Quake on an Arduino Nano [1], with only 274 kiB of RAM. But they have to jump through a lot of hoops. Running e.g. Emacs the same way is likely unrealistic, and I find Emacs a great example of software that the user can actually inspect and personalize. I would like most user-facing software tools be like that. (In an ideal world I'd love my personal machine to have a terabyte of Optane memory, but currently such hardware is but a fantasy.) [1]: https://community.silabs.com/s/share/a5UVm000000Vi1ZMAS/quake-ported-to-arduino-nano-matter-and-sparkfun-thing-plus-matter-boards?language=en_US https://community.silabs.com/s/share/a5UVm000000Vi1ZMAS/quak...
- kragen 2y agoI think Quake is enormously more difficult to get running than an Emacs. That's why it came 20 years later historically. I agree about inspection and personalization.