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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
