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Re: Can a GS run Linux?
- Subject: Re: Can a GS run Linux?
- From: "Tom Greene" <tom@cowgod.org>
- Date: 29 Mar 2007 18:27:04 -0700
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On Mar 29, 5:42 pm, pau...@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> In article <l54o03dph7dkpbi64rh590oorn2l29v...@4ax.com>,
> Gene Linkoski <neverm...@nevermind.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:26:45 +0200, Linards Ticmanis <ticma...@gmx.de>
> > wrote:
>
> >>a...@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.
>
Actually, Minix (up to 2.0.2, I believe) could indeed run on the XT. I
once had it installed on a 640K XT. See http://www.minix3.org/previous-versions/Intel-2.0.2/usage.txt.
640K doesn't leave much room for doing anything useful, however.
Tom