azha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoI think the motherboard is enough?lemm.eeimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1497
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minus-squareRob T Firefly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoThey tried running Linux on their ENIAC, but someone accidentally tipped over one of the crates of punch cards which has unfortunately set the project back a few months.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 days agoLinux doesn’t run on anything below a 386 because it requires a MMU. (Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)
minus-squareKnightontheSun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 days agoWhat can I run on a Transmeta Crusoe?
What was it, the ENIAC?
They tried running Linux on their ENIAC, but someone accidentally tipped over one of the crates of punch cards which has unfortunately set the project back a few months.
Linux doesn’t run on anything below a 386 because it requires a MMU.
(Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)
What can I run on a Transmeta Crusoe?