Eben Upton was speculating a while ago about the possibility of a very low cost computer with an operating system that was no longer undergoing development.
It wasn't spelt out in the interview but his concern seemed to be the increasing amount of memory needed by todays operating systems and their applications and hence the increasing cost of designing for and buying that memory. By going for an operating system no longer undergoing development, memory 'bloat' might be more controllable.
So maybe the new family of Raspberry Pi MCUs will be a stepping stone towards that goal.
Possibly MCUs compatible with simple video and audio interfaces including enough RAM for the video and audio?.
I would guess something along the lines of Micropython would be imported to that new/old OS if it were easy to use with the video and audio.
It wasn't spelt out in the interview but his concern seemed to be the increasing amount of memory needed by todays operating systems and their applications and hence the increasing cost of designing for and buying that memory. By going for an operating system no longer undergoing development, memory 'bloat' might be more controllable.
So maybe the new family of Raspberry Pi MCUs will be a stepping stone towards that goal.
Possibly MCUs compatible with simple video and audio interfaces including enough RAM for the video and audio?.
I would guess something along the lines of Micropython would be imported to that new/old OS if it were easy to use with the video and audio.
Statistics: Posted by EULERPI — Sat Jun 01, 2024 7:49 am