[time-nuts] An embedded NTP server

[Jim Lux]

On 1/2/13 4:46 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> That's the point I've been trying to make for about a month now. At some point, for a hobby project, the cost of the CPU becomes irrelevant. In my book, once the CPU goes below the price of lunch at McDonalds, it really doesn't matter much.
>
>

yes.. it's all about ease of interfacing and ease of programming. 
(unless you're making hundreds or 1000s of them)

This is why Arduino is so popular.. dead simple for a lot of hackery 
kinds of things.  The "first steps" on the learning stairway are pretty 
darn low (to the point that *artists* use them <grin>.. what is the 
world of computers coming to?)