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Re: Can a GS run Linux?
- Subject: Re: Can a GS run Linux?
- From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:42:50 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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In article <l54o03dph7dkpbi64rh590oorn2l29vji2@4ax.com>,
Gene Linkoski <nevermind@nevermind.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:26:45 +0200, Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
>>a2fan@nnnn.org wrote:
>>> Can a GS run any flavor of Linux, even a most basic version or is it
>>> simply out of the GS's capability?
>>
>>I doubt it. A MMU that supports paging is a minimum requirement for any
>>reasonably standard Linux, and as far as I know the GS doesn't have one.
>
> What about Minix? It ran on an IBM PC XT.
>
> ^*^ Gene ^*^
No, Minix never ran on an XT. Minix needed protected mode and thus required
at least an AT.
Perhaps you're confusing Minix with Xenix? Xenix ran on an XT. And
that's why the IBM XT harddisk got partitions: the idea was to split
up the 10 MByte harddisk into one 5 MByte MS-DOS partition and one 5
MByte Xenix partition.
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