Re: [GTALUG] UNIX of ESP32 [was Re: Canadian hosting?]

2023-04-12 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 3:45 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I window shop for these on AliExpress. Most ads are unclear about > just what modules they use. > This is why using established designers and resellers is a good idea. Even on AliExpress, there are vendors who develop their ow

Re: [GTALUG] UNIX of ESP32 [was Re: Canadian hosting?]

2023-04-12 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | It's a little hard to find the exact EP32 module used for that simulation. | That's part of the problem: there are many different chips called ESP32 | /something/, but many of them are incompatible. Some have one core, most have | two. Some have the ability t

Re: [GTALUG] UNIX of ESP32 [was Re: Canadian hosting?]

2023-04-11 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 11/04/2023 11.34, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: As you say, Linux doesn't run on an ESP32. But there is a youtube video of someone who has built a PDP-11 emulator with an ESP32 and runs 2.11 BSD UNIX on it. So cute! Ah, Sprite_tm's project: S

[GTALUG] UNIX of ESP32 [was Re: Canadian hosting?]

2023-04-11 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Stewart Russell via talk | It's been fun times | engineering out US-disapproved products. We were just about to roll out an | ESP32-based controller, but that got noped out by a client. A shame, | because what you can do with a $2 ESP32 used to take a small server. (None | of them are bi