Linux on an 8-bit micro

Re:Linux on an 8-bit micro by signalsignal on Saturday April 20, 2013 @02:04PM (#5582250)

And slightly on topic, here is Windows 95 on a 25Mhz 386 with 4 meg of RAM http://everything2.com/title/25+MHz+386+running+Windows+95

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Re:Linux on an 8-bit micro by qb45 on Saturday April 20, 2013 @02:09PM (#5582269)

This is nothing unusual for W95.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138349

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Re:Linux on an 8-bit micro by glabifrons on Saturday April 20, 2013 @03:07PM (#5582454)

Slightly closer to the original topic, here's Windows 95 running on a Nokia N900: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMYuCHxBgE

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Re:Linux on an 8-bit micro by wazoox on Saturday April 20, 2013 @05:48PM (#5582938)

Back in the time, there were even hacks to run Windows 95 in safe mode on 286 machines. 386 with 4 megs was the official minimal requirement.

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Re:Linux on an 8-bit micro by qb45 on Sunday April 21, 2013 @04:56AM (#5584350)

What were the limitations and hacks involved in this? I mean, parts of W95 (certainly including explorer.exe) were 32-bit so either they had to be disabled/replaced or the kernel extended with an 80386 emulator.

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Re:Linux on an 8-bit micro by wazoox on Sunday April 21, 2013 @05:03PM (#5586398)

IIRC it may involve using some parts from Win 3.11 running on MS-DOS 7.0 and other windows 95 parts.

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Re:Linux on an 8-bit micro by sigkill on Saturday April 20, 2013 @04:47PM (#5582755)

I personally remember running Windows 95 on a 33MHz laptop, although it had a Math Co-processor to be fair. :P

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