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Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition (debian-news.net)Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition (debian-news.net)Posted Oct 15, 2009 18:32 UTC (Thu) by dmag (subscriber, #17775)In reply to: Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition (debian-news.net) by ledow Parent article: Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition (debian-news.net)
> This isn't anything big in the computing stakes
> If they've done it on a 100MHz processor with 32Mb RAM or less [..] then it would be much more worthy of them using the word "embedded".
Oh, don't be so down on them.
First, it's a perfectly good use of the word "embedded". http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aembedded
Second, it wasn't a competition of Linux hackers to see who could make the smallest distro. It was an wide-range assortment of Engineers making an *Autonomous* (as in not radio controlled) sub.
Third, I'd like to see you do real-time image recognition on a video stream with a 100MHz processor. Heck, a 100MHz Pentium had trouble *playing back* postage-stamp sized video as I recall.
Fourth, it was students for crissakes! We can't compare them to a professional of _your_ caliber.
Fifth, I define embedded as "8-bit processor and 2K of RAM". How silly of you to call it "embedded" if it has Megabytes of RAM!
Just the fact that "students" built an autonomous sub is amazing. Likely not even possible 10 years ago (certainly not affordable).
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