Re: question

[Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>]

Grape Ape:
> All right...a question about Linux...is there, or will there ever be a
> version for a 286? I heard a rumor about there IS going to be one, but I
> wanted to find out from you guys.

Yes, there will be one. It's called ELKS. Runs on any 8088 or above PC.
Currently, it boots, mounts a floppy, and maybe runs a program (if you're
lucky).

I doubt it will ever run debian, though. At least not on my XT. dpkg would
be a little slow. :-)

http://www.linux.org.uk/Linux8086.html

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