MSP430's only have 64K of address space, which isn't enough to run even uCLinux. | Hacker News

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monocasa on Aug 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Macbook charger teardown: Complexity inside Apple'...

MSP430's only have 64K of address space, which isn't enough to run even uCLinux.

c-smile on Aug 4, 2016 | [–]

But it is quite a lot for CP/M - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M

monocasa on Aug 4, 2016 | | [–]

Eh, it's low even for CP/M. MSP430s have 64K of address space, not RAM. Even the smallest CP/M machines had that. A lot even had simplistic paging hardware to exceed that.

hatsunearu on Aug 4, 2016 | [–]

Depending on the model, it only has 512B of RAM, lol

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