Re:The future of 32-bit Linux
by pantalaimon on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:01AM
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linux never ran on 16 bit CPUs.
that being said, CPUs like the 8051 are still very much alive today.
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> linux never ran on 16 bit CPUs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable_Linux_Kernel_Subset
This was a toy project that was never mainlined
It doesn't need to mainlained in the same Linux upstream to be serious.
I am not familiar with it to say whether it really wasn't that useful for inherent reasons or whether vendors in that space were just more lucky to defend their proprietary solutions than the (mainline) Linux competitors.