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Is this the oldest piece of hardware that's ever run Linux, I'm left wondering?

• dmitrygr 2y ago
  It surely is
  • cdchn 2y ago
    I'd figure the earliest thing anybody has run Linux on before this would be a 386. Although I suppose with this MIPS emulator ported to some other proto-processors it could go older, but just getting the hardware to do that would be a challenge. PS: love the VFD
    • fortran77 2y ago
      There was a 286 Xenix, and Minix (which inspired Linux) ran on an 8088.
      • cdchn 2y ago
        Yeah, and UNIX was developed on a PDP-7 as far back as 1969. But I was talking about Linux.
    • einr 2y ago
      Linux will run on a 68020 which is a couple of years older than a 386.