pretty amazing. I had a Packard Bell Pentium 100mhz in 1996 and it ran Windows 95. It cost $1299 at Best Buy and I remember the monitor was around $200+$200 for an HP DeskJet 600. It only had 8MB of RAM unlike some of the more powerful PCs at the time. I don't remember it being choppy but it would be interesting to see something like tinycore linux ported to the Ambiq Apollo4 microcontroller, a 192MHZ MCU without a MMU. getting it to run on less than 2MB of RAM would be a challenge. I read NetBSD is more efficient. I am really just interested in a GUI with a mouse pointer that can run a few apps.
@@derex47 depends on how you see it.i use the newest process nodes (Ambiq is 22nm, for a microcontroller, that isn't old) and Im betting it will be solar powered because the machine doesn't need moar power. The future is energy scavenging, battery less iOT devices, I just happen to be one of the only one advocating user interferaces that don't rely on touchscreen, since they are extremely unreliable.
