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       ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox
        
       Example repo: https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo  The
       underlying ESP-IDF component:
       https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezybox  It is something like
       Raspberry Pi, but without the overhead of a full server-grade OS.
       It captures a lot of the old school DOS era coding experience. I
       created a custom fast text mode driver, plan to add VGA-like
       graphics next. ANSI text demos run smooth, as you can see in the
       demo video featured in the Readme.  App installs also work
       smoothly. The first time it installed 6 apps from my git repo with
       one command, felt like, "OMG, I got homebrew to run on a toaster!"
       And best of all, it can install from any repo, no approvals or
       waiting, you just publish a compatible ELF file in your release.
       Coverage:  Hackaday: https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/breezybox-a-
       busybox-like-she...  Hackster.io:
       https://www.hackster.io/news/valentyn-danylchuk-s-breezybox-...
       Reddit:
       https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1qq503c/i_made_an_in...
        
       Author : isitcontent
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2026-02-06 21:33 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | mrlonglong wrote:
       | Would it be possible to port it to run on the rp2350?
        
       | its_magic wrote:
       | Cool project!
        
       | galangalalgol wrote:
       | Doesn't the lack of a flat memory model make a genral os
       | difficult? The amiga1000 had far less processing power and about
       | the same memory, with no mmu, but that memory model was flat. Did
       | you have to do weird things to work around it?
        
         | apitman wrote:
         | Can you expound on this problem a bit? I'm still pretty new to
         | MCUs.
        
       | vegadw wrote:
       | Being instant-on is so, so cool. I really like seeing projects
       | like this and Adafruit's Fruit Jam as they really show "Yeah, by
       | having all this junk in the way, we do lose some things"
       | 
       | Absolutely would give something like this to a kid as a first
       | computer.
        
       | apitman wrote:
       | Hey you're the xcc700 guy! Very cool stuff. I've been interested
       | lately in using MCUs for general purpose compute. I wonder how
       | far you could push it.
        
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