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A Tale of Running Modern Linux on Hardware from 1997

A Tale of Running Modern Linux on Hardware from 1997 - Sahaj.
I have been interested in retro hardware for a long time. I don’t remember where the idea first came to me but I’ve always been interested in finding out how modern Linux behaves on bare metal old hardware, because quemu lies and is very inaccurate replicating the intricacies of x86 retro hardware. Modern Linux being […]

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