A CAPTCHA that shows pictures of different systems-on-chip, asking to identify which ones boot mainline Linux
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[–] 42 points 8 months ago (1 child)

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/linux-takes-476-days-to-boot-on-an-ancient-intel-4004-cpu-cpu-precedes-the-os-by-20-years

Linux takes 4.76 days to boot on an ancient Intel 4004 CPU β€” CPU precedes the OS by 20 years

In essence, to bridge the hardware/software divide, the enthusiast emulated the more capable MIPS R3000 processor, which boasts the required C compiler support.

As long as they can talk to external storage, which I expect all of them can, all of them can probably emulate each other, so all of them can probably boot Linux.

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