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

[Luther Johnson]

and wireless devices, hot spots ...

On 05/27/2025 07:16 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
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> 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:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> related:
>>>
>>> anyone on list know where all the ARM ‘CPUs’ (cores or multi-core 
>>> chips?) get used?
>>>
>>> ARM, as the licenser, declared it licensed 250B “CPUs”  in 2024.
>>>
>>> We know 1-2B go into smartphones, perhaps another 250M into PC-like 
>>> devices (250M is approx PC market)
>>>
>>> Where do the rest go?
>>>
>>> I’ve read some HDD’s use ARM processors, so a few billion there perhaps.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design
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>>>
>>> mailto:sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin
>>>
>>
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