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Re: Linux on PS/2?



 On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:05:20PM -0500, Nuno Sucena Almeida wrote: 
> You know when you feel old when the reply that first came to the mind was: 
> 
> "AFAIK, THE IBM PS/2 only had at most 80286 processor models, and you need a 
> MMU to run the standard Linux kernel. uClinux might be an option though" 

My memory and wikipedia say you misremember: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2

PS/2 was used for systems from 8086 through 80486, and a 
one-off, not-quite PS/2 PC server with 6 Pentium CPUs. 

-dsr- 

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