[nine_k]

Unless you want really high performance networking, you don't need tons of RAM to implement it. ESP32-based MCUs are known to implement Wifi + TCP/IP + TLS [1] on 1-2MB of RAM. This is, of course, without a Linux-compatible kernel.

Much RAM is not needed if most of your code resides on the flash and runs directly from there.

[1]: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/master/examples/pr...

[contingencies]

2KB SRAM. ~1-2ms TCP setup + HTTP round trip, ~500-1000 requests/sec. Guess the MCU.

[snvzz]

Atmega328P?

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Knew someone would get it in one :)

[snvzz]

If the slowness wasn't hint enough, the 2KB SRAM was a dead giveaway.

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When I was your age, I sent 24 people to the actual moon with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes. - @natecull, on Margaret Hamilton perspective