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Linux Now Runs on the Atari Jaguar, a 1993 Console With Just 2 MB of RAM (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Ironically the Jaguar’s vintage status makes this the most expensive Linux machine on earth

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    It's worth nothing if it hasn't been graded and placed in a sealed plastic box by a grading company that asserts that grading is awesome and things are worth nothing if they aren't graded.

    (sad \s)

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Finally, I've been waiting for Linux to work on the Atari Jaguar before I pulled the trigger. People called me a hold out in 1993.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That's cool however can the Atari Jaguar run Doom?

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    According to the dev, the biggest challenge was that the Motorola 68000 lacks a Memory Management Unit. So, a standard Linux setup with virtual memory would not work. Luckily, Linux still supports m68k systems without an MMU by using the uClinux/NOMMU option and a flat memory model.

    I was honestly expecting it to be weirder hardware, turns out it's a configuration the kernel already supports. Still neat, but somehow a bit of a letdown.

    The DSP stuff is cool though, that's sufficiently weird for me.

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