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RobotToaster 2 days ago

Has anyone run linux on thermionic valves yet?

dmitrygr a day ago | parent [-]

I’m on it

balou23 a day ago | parent [-]

You'd better be, we have certain expectations from you now /s

But more seriously... I don't think that Linux has ever been booted on a non-monolithic CPU (I wanted to say 'discrete cpu' first, but there's some PDP-11s with 4 chip CPUs)

dmitrygr a day ago | parent [-]

one could argue that 4004 is it. It does not really do memory ops at all. all decoding for memory ops happens inside the memory chips. but yeah - not non-monolithic enough