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Comment by duskwuff

> I suppose in principle the RPi Pico could self-host its own OS and devel environment. 520 KB of RAM in the old days was plenty to fit an OS and compiler.

With two cheap PSRAM chips and a bit of trickery, you can upgrade that to 32(.5) MB, which is certainly enough to run a small OS.

In principle you can add even more memory with bank switching, but 32 MB is the limit for a flat address space.

parent duskwuff 2 months ago

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