Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004
Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004
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Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004
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I could probably shave a few seconds off that if it was written in assembly
if it was compiled then probably a few days
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Nice, now run Linux on a tube computer!
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You've just given someone an idea. Next step: a Babbage difference engine.
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My first job was building computers with old parts. A guy needed MS Word for work but didn’t want to buy a new computer or upgrade his 386SX (25Mhz iirc). It had like 20MB of disk and I don’t recall the RAM. So he asked me if I could try. So I did. I managed to install DOS, Windows 3.1 and MS Word. I don’t remember how long it took to boot, but I remember that it would take 6 seconds for a pressed letter to appear on the screen.
You forgot to press the turbo button!
And now it takes 12 second for a single character to appear on the screen!
(Pressing Turbo button actually slowed down the CPU AFAIK).
If you had used the dos version of word it should have been fine
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