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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-proces

by 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.