I did 8080 programming and had 16kb to play with. I thought there would never be a program large enough that 1mb was needed. Hah
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 10, 2025, at 13:41, Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On Sep 10, 2025, at 1:34 PM, Jim Davis via cctalk <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Yep, 16 bits, or even 32 seemed like a lot, If you're writing asm, It is. >> But like you alluded to, it's not good enough for the stuff we expect today, > > That depends a lot on what sort of "stuff" you work with. > > For various fun projects I use the Raspberry Pico, which is a 32 bit > microcontroller with 1/4 or 1/2 MB of RAM, which is quite a lot. But a bunch > of that work uses the PIO engines -- basically programmable state machines > that talk to the I/O pins. Those have 16 bit instructions, and a 32 word > program memory. No data RAM, just a couple of registers. Quite powerful, > though. One application is the DDCMP controller I published a while ago. > I'm thinking about making it talk Ethernet in software as the next exercise... > > paul >
