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Re:Building the worst Linux PC ever: 6 hours to boot Ubuntu by JanezStupar on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @05:14PM (#3768377)
This article got me laughing into tears.

Only to make it even funnier by the glazed look in my girlfriends eyes when I was trying to explain whats so funny about guy bootstrapping a 32bit OS on a 8bit micro controller.

I mean the idea of emulating 32bit OS on a 8bit machine is not something too ridiculous on its own. But the setup he used. Oh my god. Must stop trying to comprehend this madness.

Kudos to Dmitry.

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Re:Building the worst Linux PC ever: 6 hours to boot Ubuntu by jacquesm on Thursday March 29, 2012 @04:59AM (#3770354)
That's how the first version of the ARM was made, by software simulation on a 6502 in BASIC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#History

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Re:Building the worst Linux PC ever: 6 hours to boot Ubuntu by bobroberts on Thursday March 29, 2012 @02:12AM (#3769893)
UUENCODE?
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