News Throwback workstation emulated on a business-card-sized board you can (almost) carry in your wallet — DECstation emulation using RP2040

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A maker has developed a DECstation emulation built into a credit card-sized single-board computer.

Throwback workstation emulated on a business-card-sized board you can (almost) carry in your wallet — DECstation emulation using RP2040 : Read more

 

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I wondered what he did about memory, since that seems to be the RP2040's Achilles heel, but the board says it has 32 MB of "HyperRAM". So I guess the RP2040 does actually support some kind of external memory, then?

BTW, it does strike me as funny to emulate a far more capable machine on a lowly microcontroller. If I understand correctly, RP2040 couldn't natively run an OS like Ultrix.