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[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not only could mainline Linux never run on a 286, it also definitely doesn't count as an "SoC" to begin with. It needed a separate co-processor just to do floating-point math, let alone to manage all the I/O that a SoC does on-die.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

You guys are the best. I reply in what I think is a bit nerdy way, and I'm outdone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It needed a separate co-processor

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