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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: 8th is going embedded!
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:25:13 -0700
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Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> writes:
> We're excited to announce we've got a partner who is designing and
> developing an "embedded-8th" board!
> Details on our forum: http://8th-dev.com/forum/index.php/topic,923.0.html

Nice, but why make a new board, instead of using something like one of
the ST Discovery or the MicroPython or Espruino boards?  Or even a
raspberry pi or the like.

Is there an architectural description of 8th somewhere?  I.e. what kind
of storage management does it use?