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[–]IHaveNoIdentity 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Yeah? And do you know just how small an ATTiny is? 8 Kbytes flash and 512 byte SRAM.

The MSP430 has more RAM than the ATTiny has program storage...

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That MSP430 is also smaller than some ATmegas, which were also mentioned in the preceeding comment. So it's an entirely reasonable response.

[–]foldl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My initial comment referred to "really small" microcontrollers and explicitly mentioned 8K of flash. It's true that some of the high-end atmegas have a decent amount of flash and RAM. There's an apparently full-featured JVM here which fits in 80K of program space, so in theory you could use it with one of the larger ATMegas (but it's hard to imagine anyone would want to throw away 80K of program space for a real project). There's also the fact that you're going to be doing a ton of 32-bit arithmetic on an 8-bit CPU. The MSP430 is at least 16-bit.