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> they aren’t really big enough to run a more modern OS comfortably I'm sure there are a few asterisks to this, but the WRT54G (the iconic Linksys blue and bla
by dehrmann 5y ago
> they aren’t really big enough to run a more modern OS comfortably
I'm sure there are a few asterisks to this, but the WRT54G (the iconic Linksys blue and black wifi router) has a MIPS 32-bit CPU that's ~4x as fast as the PSX and ~1/2x as fast as the PS2.
- zokier 5y agoWell, modern OpenWRT doesn't run on original WRT54G at all, and barely on the upgraded WRT54GS version, so there is that. 32MB of RAM that the PS2 had would be really tight for modern kernels. https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning But CPU-wise I don't foresee that ~300MHz MIPS would be any sort of major roadblock.
- mobilio 5y agoCurrently OpenWrt uses Kernel 5.10 or 5.4. When WRT54G was available kernel was 2.2 or 2.4
- marderfarker2 5y agoMy mind is blown. Especially when knowing my WRT54G would buckle if you so much as send it more than a dozen ICMP packets per second.
- klodolph 5y agoThe 4x that’s important is that the smallest iteration of the WRT54G still has 4x as much RAM as a PlayStation. The CPU speed is enough, to be sure. Newer versions of OpenWrt or Linux are going to have problems with such a small amount of RAM. Note that it’s definitely possible, it’s just not comfortable.
- duskwuff 5y agoThe limiting factor on the PS1 would have been RAM. It only had 2 MB -- the WRT54G had 16 MB.