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> I cannot imagine embedded pre ardunio. You'd think it would have created a scarcity of workers.

That made it a useful market to be in (as a developer.) My first embedded task was on a PDP 11/23 sans OS (despite the fact that DEC had suitable RTOSs like RSX-11M)




It’s not that hard, 2nd year EE classes at most. Once you learn how to read a data sheet for your MCU or SOC things start to click.


...and when you find yourself reading the errata sheet for your specific silicon revision you've arrived.




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