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Comment by rbanffy

12 days ago

Unless you want cycle-accurate interfaces, it's pointless. Software can provide more than good enough performance and be a lot more flexible at that.

As microcontrollers get faster, the cycle-accurate timing becomes less relevant, as you can still match external timings with software and have the support of an RTOS to help with that.

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Wowfunhappy  12 days ago

What about power consumption? Could you have a tiny Mac which runs approximately forever on a single charge?

  • rbanffy  11 days ago

    I imagine the power consumption of the compute part would be dwarfed by the display in any case.

    • Wowfunhappy  11 days ago

      I was imagining you'd still plug it into an external display. I guess you could fairly argue that defeats the purpose of a battery, though...

      Although, it might be cool with e-ink, low refresh rate notwithstanding.

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