Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > > Given enough RAM (640K?), is there any good reason why ELKS couldn't be
> > > ported to the PCjr?
> > >
> > > No, I am not volunteering to try it....
> > >
> > > -tony
> >
> >
> > I believe that all versions of Linux require a 32+ bit processor to run.
>
> I thought the whole point of ELKS was that it didn't need the MMU of the
> 386+ (it's that, rather than the 32 bit operations, that is the real
> reason that full linux won't run on a 286 or below, I think).
>
> -tony
I was mistaken, I hadn't seen a version that could run on anything less
than a 386 before. If I known that it would work, I would have kept
that old 286-20 with 2mb RAM that I used to have... :)
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Joseph Kaye
Received on Mon Oct 22 2001 - 16:01:36 BST