Hardware specs

[denull0]

We need to have full hardware specs. Anyone with knowledge and passion feel free to grab this one.

[pblca]

This is a massive task, I think likely the best starting point here is deciding on a processor or instruction set, and then shopping for hardware based on that.

Expressed here (#3) is at least a suggestion on a starting point. My reservations here lie in the fact that ARM11 is like 15 years old and pretty low power and clock speed, and with something that is crypto focused this can be a huge hurdle.

More advanced development systems can be significantly more expensive which puts a rather large barrier to entry for any distributed development. Example Here

Im not a hardware expert by any means but in my opinion I think the best way to move forward at least in a prototyped stage is to develop a hardware stack based off of off the shelf development boards, this makes it accessible for people to engage in the project and removes a number of complications from the initial prototype rev. The main consideration here is to target a similar instruction set or processor so any OS development can be ported with relative ease.

Let me know if any of this is helpful

[denull0]

@codyjb That's interesting. I think next step is to break down the task into smaller tasks:

• Pick an off the shelf stack
• Add a How To section to ARCHITECTURE.md

We can then create a milestone for a working prototype.