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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Plus the cost of the Pi, I assume.
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The Pi Zero W is a complete system. Half a gig of ram and the processor isn't super speedy, but for $10 I find it rather amazing that you can run a full blown Linux on it; same image as for the Pi 4b. (But don't install the desktop environment/x11; no doubt too slow for that. With just the MIT Xorg X11 it might be ok.) After you make the sd card put on the partition named boot a wpa_supplicant.conf file (set up for your wifi) and add an empty file named ssh, then you can ssh into it when you boot it.
Half a gig of ram doesn't sound like much but the best I can remember for ram size for the earliest Unix workstations I had was 4 meg, and this is 500 meg with the Pi Zero W. The very first workstation may have been 1 meg. I remember getting a server that had 64 meg and I was agog at all that memory.