The mismatch between the Ancient Specs of Yore is kind of interesting. The Commodore 64 had 64KB of RAM, but that RAM was attached to an 8-bit, 1MHz CPU. This thing has call it half the RAM of a Commodore 64, but it's attached to a 32-bit 24MHz CPU the 1980s could only dream of. And it's disposable in 2025. Pretty impressive in a weird way.

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justincormack a day ago | parent | next [-]

Its only got 3k of RAM, 24k of flash. Although modern flash is sometimes the same bandwidth as memory was if you go back a bit, although not latency of course.

	▲	briansm 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The old 1980s computers also had no equivalent of flash storage though, the RAM had to store the program being run as well as act as scratch-space.

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Narishma a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's got only 3KB of RAM, less than even the VIC-20.

	▲	cubefox 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Somewhat less than the NES, which had 2 KB work RAM and 2 KB VRAM.
	▲	jerf a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Whoops, yes. I stand corrected. Tack another order of magnitude or so on to the mismatch.

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masfuerte a day ago | parent | prev [-]

The CPU isn't that fantastical for the 1980s. The Archimedes had an 8MHz ARM in 1987. It was expensive though and came with at least 512KB RAM.

P.S. After I wrote that I looked at the Wikipedia page. Which helpfully reminded me that 1987 was 38 years ago :(

	▲	jerf 21 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Fair enough. I've gotten out of the habit of thinking exponentially about computer performance. Modify my original post to that 1980s 8-bit era of personal computing. I did intend to compare it on the basis of the RAM available, which as is observed in another correction puts this more in the VIC-20 era... ... for those of us old enough to even have a mental distinction between "the VIC-20 era" and the "Commodore 64" era rather than just being a smear of bittyboxes all equally uselessly small....
	▲	xenospn a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The 386SX came out in 1985!