fncslothouber

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   by fncslothouber 3y ago

   and usually also far less bloated
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   by fncslothouber 3y ago

   Yup, for fun. Building a game from scratch almost from from the bottom. Starting with a CPU, sound-chip and graphics-chip (using an FPGA). On top of that a Forth system and on top of that a platform game. Lots of fun and a great learning e
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   by fncslothouber 4y ago

   Forth would also be a nice choice. Give you another example. A watch, not an apple watch, but a simple Casio watch. One that does time, alarm and a stopwatch. Not connected to anything. What is important here is the battery life, so the les
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   by fncslothouber 4y ago

   Not everything is or needs to be connected to the Internet. There are plenty of things that are controlled by a micro controllers that do not have a network connection.
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   by fncslothouber 4y ago

   Memory safety / security is important for a subset of all possible applications. It is not important for _all_ applications. If I use a micro controller to control a string of leds I do not care about security/memory safety. But I
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   by fncslothouber 4y ago

   Both are used extensively in the IT systems that operate most of the Dutch railways.