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Supporting older hardware

Posted Sep 17, 2008 14:21 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: Supporting older hardware by spaetz
Parent article: KS2008: Linux 3.0

> If you want to use your 80286, it [2.4] might be fully sufficient.

LOL. 16-bit processor without an MMU. ELKS supports it, but (a) ELKS is moribund and (b) it never tracked mainline Linux security updates.

Probably better off with minix 1.x.

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