• Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      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.

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      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.)