[TUHS] Whither Workstations? (Was Re: Demise of AT&T)

[Luther Johnson]

and thumb (USB) drives, and power banks, and probably anything you can 
connect via USB, like keyboards

On 05/27/2025 07:13 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
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> There are tiny ARM processors in SD cards.
>
> On 05/27/2025 03:42 PM, sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au wrote:
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>>> On 28 May 2025, at 00:52, Stuff Received <stuff at riddermarkfarm.ca> 
>>> wrote:
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>>> Everyone forgets about embedded systems.  When I was still noodling, 
>>> there were several RTOSes that were POSIX-certified (QNX and 
>>> VxWorks, amongst others).  Of course, these ran on the higher end 
>>> 32-bit MCUs, of which dozens exist in modern cars.  That medical 
>>> stuff probably conforms to IEC 62304, regardless of its internals.
>>>
>>> S.
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>> related:
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>> anyone on list know where all the ARM ‘CPUs’ (cores or multi-core 
>> chips?) get used?
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>> ARM, as the licenser, declared it licensed 250B “CPUs”  in 2024.
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>> We know 1-2B go into smartphones, perhaps another 250M into PC-like 
>> devices (250M is approx PC market)
>>
>> Where do the rest go?
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>> I’ve read some HDD’s use ARM processors, so a few billion there perhaps.
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>> --
>> Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design
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