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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This requires little more than a 286. It's an elevator. Responding in times measured in seconds. What kind of computations do you think are required here? Imaginary quaternion matrixes? Squared?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but if you have it as a Windows program it's easier to configure on a screen with mouse and keyboard, change settings, display help files or give the source code to someone else to make changes or add features.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

also it was probably not too expensive to grad a bog standard PC off the shelf and do it on that. I've see raspis in the wild doing tasks like that. and those will be outdated by the time they're replaced too