Tore S Bekkedal wrote:
Actually, Linux will run on an 8086, nowadays,
completely without memory
management as an embedded OS :)
I vaguely remember seeing a page about running Linux on the Tosh 1000 :)
That's the ELKS project, which promptly went inactive as soon as they got
something cobbled together. A much better bet for running *nix on 8088
hardware is Minix.
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