w00t!!

[WaWAR_FA]

l33t \/3ry l33t.

|-|yp3r|)4t4 |3la(|< & \/\/|-|it3 310 l4pt()p r|_||\||\|i|\|g r3|)|-|4t 7.1 66|\/||-|z 16|\/|3g r4|\/|.

try t|-|i5 4t |-|()|\/|3 i |)4r3 y()|_|!!!

[Master of Reality]

My uncle had a stacy II atari laptop. It wasnt running linux though... it recently died in a flood.
Are you actually running X on it?? I couldnt get redhat to install on anything with less than 32 MB of RAM. I had to upgrade my server from 16 to 32 MB. FreeBSD will run on 5 MB of RAM (actually it will run on 4MB, but the installer needs 5MB)

[ June 30, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[TheQuirk]

To the "1337 h4x0r" challenged:

l33t \/3ry l33t.

|-|yp3r|)4t4 |3la(|< & \/\/|-|it3 310 l4pt()p r|_||\||\|i|\|g r3|)|-|4t 7.1 66|\/||-|z 16|\/|3g r4|\/|.

try t|-|i5 4t |-|()|\/|3 i |)4r3 y()|_|!!!
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Elite, very elite.

Hyperdata black and white 310 (dunno) laptop running Red Hat 7.1 66mhz 16meg ram.

Try this at home, I dare you!!!

[WaWAR_FA]

4t4ri
 i |3()\/\/ |33f()r3 y()|_|r |_||\|(l35 l33t 5|<ill5

[lazygamer]

Agreed, 0ld$k00l in teh house! Ok I heard someone mention about Linux running on a Cray? Cray, isn't that some pretty old system? What is the record for the oldest and weakest system to ever run Linux correctly on?

[choasforages]

either the i386, or the m68k.

[Calum]

80286 surely! Or maybe even the 8086 or 80186, does anybody know what the earliest intel chip it will run on is? it was designed on a 386 was it not, but would possibly run on earlier kit if you got the right stuff...

will linux run on those old home/toy computers with no hard drive from the eighties? You know like Acorns, Atari STs, Amigas and so on...

[ July 01, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[choasforages]

i though linux was a 32 bit os only

[badkarma]

there is a linux version which runs on a commodore 64 iirc

[WaWAR_FA]

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[WaWAR_FA]

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(r34t3|) ||\| 1948, 4|34|\||)()|\|3|) ||\| 1951.

r35t4rt3|) ||\| 1986 4|\||) \/\/45 r3/\/\4|)3 t() r|_||\| |_||\||x.

|<||)5, t|-||5 \/\/45 4|\| ()l|) |3()x.

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[Calum]

christ! that must be harder to write than it is to read! please! have mercy!

[lazygamer]

Well on other forums they would flame the shit out of you and say fuck you and ban you.  

Ok lesse /attempts to decrypt

"Oldest known computer running Linux was a Radio Shack TRS 80 model.

Very old piece of shit."

Damn word for word 100pct! My 31337 5|<!11z r0><0r.


Second translation

"Just got done checking.

I was wrong.

It was the Manchester Mark 1.

Created in 1948, abandoned in 1951.

Restarted in 1986 and was remapped to run Linux.

Kids, this was an old box.

64 k total space.

But it did work."

Hmmm amazing. I heard this in another thread and was in shock.

1)Explain how they made it work
2)What exactly is this Manchester thing anyways? A desktop sized computer?
3)What version of Linux?
4)Who did this marvelous feat?
5)What implications does this have for Linux on modern day PC's?
6)How is it an OS that can be jury rigged to run on a Manchester, does not have a Windows program emulator that is near flawless? That's like saying "we can send a man to the moon, but we can't..."

[Calum]

1948  Manchester Mark I (1st stored-program digital computer), Whirlwind at MIT


Manchester Mark 1 1944

both pictures taken from this excellent page here.

Here's a little page with instructions for using a Manchester Mar 1 I have yet to see anything that suggests it can run linux however, also it looks as if it was around since 1935 or thereabouts, certainly earlier than 1948...

[WaWAR_FA]

the drum drives were all converted to tape by some guys at mit in like 86 or 87 then forgotten until 95 or 96.

some other guys took the whole thing and repaired it to run non gui linux.

im not typing in l33t5|>34|< because that crap is really hard on my brain.