Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004 Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks. Benj Edwards – Sep 23, 2024 2:48 pm ...

Programmer and hardware enthusiast Dmitry Grinberg has shared a video in which he boots and runs commands on an Intel 4004-powered PC running Linux. The video demonstrates the excruciating time to ...

That's why unhinged hardware-and-software hacking lunatic (which we say in the fondest way possible) Dmitry Grinberg had to use an emulator to get Linux to boot on an Intel 4004 microprocessor ...

Intel’s original CPU, the 4004, was built as a calculator chip, ... That’s the length of time a Linux PC powered by an ancient Intel CPU will keep you tapping your fingers on the desk.

The hacking pro's latest project was the self-imposed challenge of getting Linux to run on an Intel 4004 from 1971. It was Intel's first commercial chip and predates Linux by two decades.

System76's Meerkat Linux mini PC family has been around for many years, and last time we covered it, the company offered it ...

This is where Dmitry Grinberg or Dimity.GR, who set the record for the lowest-end machine to run Linux back in 2012, enters the picture. He took the design and capabilities of the Intel 4004 chip ...

This is quite a bit bigger than the original 12mm² die. The Intel 4004 was among the first microprocessors and one of the first to use the MOS silicon-gate technology. In the decades long race to ...

In short, he managed to get the kernel of Debian Linux to boot on a 4-bit Intel 4004 processor, the first ever commercially manufactured microprocessor. Even by the standards of the 1970s, the ...

The Intel 4004 was the first commercially available microprocessor back in 1971, and now it can run Linux. So, given the 4004’s very limited architecture and 4-bit bus, how can it perform this ...

Originally, expected to complete much sooner, the compile is now expected to complete approximately [some-date-beyond-2071], past the 100th anniversary of the Intel 4004. The verison of Linux ...

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