In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
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wrote
on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:00:24 +0000
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> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
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>> Does this include a "driver" to run on the ARM microprocessor?
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> Or M68K, or Sparc, or Alpha, or PPC, or MIPS, or PA-RISC, or S/390.
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Sssh. Don't confuse the poor boy too much; he's obviously
never heard of non-Intel. ;-)
Admittedly, I was under the impression that once upon
a time, before PPC and Alpha died a horrible death,
Microsoft was working on HAL, which would have run on any
microprocessor that met a certain set of requirements
(among them, little endianity and 32-bit integers, but
those are details).
Of course, Linux now can run on any microprocessor that
meets a certain set of requirements (at least 22 or so
address bits and MMU access, mostly), though I'm not sure
how many are out there that Linux has not coded for yet.
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