Re: Debian PC Requirements
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 18:23, Ron Reinhart wrote:
> >It requires at least a 386 to run. The kernel of the GNU/Linux system
> > (Linux) is a 32 bit kernel and 386 is the start of 32 bit chips from
> > Intel.
>
> I hate to date myself so badly but it seems to me that professors where running
> Linux on 8088's and 8086's around 1990 or so before 32bit Intel chips. I was
> running OS9 on a CoCo3 at the time so I can't say from my own experience.
> Regards,
> Ron
Linux, no. Minix, maybe. However, the Intel 80386 had been available
for a couple of years already by 1990, and Linux was started as an
experiment to use the "advanced features" of the 386, and so was 32 bit
right from the start.
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