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You could, if you'd emulate a 32b cpu on that 8-bitter.

The real limitation here is memory. Imho it says a lot about modern day software bloat that even an ancient 2.0 series kernel needs ~600KB (ROM/RAM combined). For what, really? That's already a lot of features & almost all hw drivers stripped from it, right? What's that remaining ~600KB code+data doing then?



I would be remiss if I didn’t post this classic hack - Linux running on an ATmega via emulation, bit-banging a DIMM directly. [1]

[1] https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bi...


640kb “should be enough for everyone”




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