cdchn 10 months ago

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

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  • dmitrygr 10 months ago

    It surely is

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    • cdchn 10 months 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

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      • einr 10 months ago

        Linux will run on a 68020 which is a couple of years older than a 386.

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      • fortran77 10 months ago

        There was a 286 Xenix, and Minix (which inspired Linux) ran on an 8088.

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        • cdchn 10 months ago

          Yeah, and UNIX was developed on a PDP-7 as far back as 1969. But I was talking about Linux.

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