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by tharkun__ 1179 days ago
You chose to ignore the like this your parent mentioned ;)

And I agree. All programmers should at some point work on a super slow, super limited AVR or something like that. Something where you have to make hard decisions either because you don't have enough RAM, not enough CPU power, not enough storage, not enough I/O pins etc.

Even non flagship phones are more powerful than the boxes running Windows Embedded 20 years ago.

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I once ran a project on an Attiny. That bad boy has 1KiB of flash and 128 Bytes of RAM at an unthinkable 4/8MHz.

I can't begin to tell you how incredibly annoying it was, but it taught me a lot. I know a lot of people who would be completely dumbfounded at 128B of memory. That's only four int32!