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Minix no longer quite so mini

Minix no longer quite so mini

Posted Mar 12, 2012 19:36 UTC (Mon) by andreasb (subscriber, #80258)
In reply to: Minix no longer quite so mini by leoc
Parent article: MINIX 3.2: A microkernel with NetBSD applications

The µC on an Arduino Uno has only 2 kB of RAM. It does have 32 kB of on-chip program flash memory.

There's no real dynamic program loading possible (from connected storage or whatever) since it can't execute instructions from RAM. Unless you take the indirection of a script/bytecode interpreter or outright emulation of a different CPU (there's an AVR based CP/M project out there that emulates a 8080 with external DRAM).


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