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Re: Linux on PS/2?



 On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Dan Ritter wrote: 

> 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. 


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