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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes"
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 07:56:41 -0700
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On Wed, 28 May 2025 04:02:19 -0000 (UTC)
legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) wrote:

> Microcontrollers today have more resources than a PDP-11/70 from
> 1975.  As much as the appetite of the hardware has increased, the
> appetite for features from customers has increased even further.

But then, the fewer resources consumed by the underlying framework, the
more are free for the actual application that meets those customer
needs. Of course there's a balance to be struck, but a spendthrift
attitude towards resources will, sooner or later, lead to a crunch that
might've been avoided otherwise.

(Things are also gonna get *real* interesting when Moore's Law finally
hits the wall with those pesky laws of physics that say things like "you
can't fit an infinite amount of stuff in a finite space without
creating a black hole" and "but also distance imposes hard limits on
signal propagation times" and "and also basic thermodynamics means work
generates waste heat, which has hard limits on dissipation.")