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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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