Date   : Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:33:46 +0100 (BST)
From   : tim.fardell@... (Tim Fardell)
Subject: OT PC architecture

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Jason Flynn G7OCD wrote:

> --- On Wed, 21/4/10, Mike Tomlinson <mike@...> wrote:
> > There is (or was) an early version of Linux that would run on
> > the 8086, though god knows how it managed memory.
> 
> IIRC it started off as a bit of a joke, anyway this is probably
> what you're thinking about (it looks like abandonware to me):
> http://elks.sourceforge.net/
> 
> For a more actively maintained low footprint Linux check out
> http://www.uclinux.org/ports/
> although at a glance all the ports are to micros with MMU.

Someone in our office managed to install Linux on an old Cisco 3000 
router, and made it into a Web server. Fun, but totally pointless as there 
was only about 2MB of Flash space left for web content.