Just curious...

Posted Aug 8, 2008 18:57 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
Parent article: From Lego robots to hammers and nails, Linux gets embedded (Network World)

Just curious (and forgive me if this is too far off-topic): What's the smallest device (i.e., physical dimensions and/or mass/weight) that currently runs (or can run) Linux?

The Talking Book uses a 16-bit Generalplus 96 MHz microprocessor, similar to those found in talking toys, along with embedded Linux.

I thought that Linux could only run on a 32-bit (or later) CPU/architecture. Am I mistaken? Or, might this particular example be heavily hacked to run on a 16-bit arch? Thanks!

Just curious...

Posted Aug 8, 2008 19:14 UTC (Fri) by leoc (guest, #39773) [Link]

What's the smallest device (i.e., physical dimensions and/or mass/weight) that currently runs (or can run) Linux?

My vote would be for this. 19mm x 19mm x 36mm x 18 grams.

Just curious...

Posted Aug 9, 2008 20:29 UTC (Sat) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

And it's presumably uClinux, btw.