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Dmitry.GR: Slowly booting full Linux on the intel 4004 for fun, art, and absolutely no profit

TL;DR

I booted Debian Linux on a 4-bit intel microprocessor from 1971 - the first microprocessor in the world - the 4004. It is not fast, but it is a real Linux kernel with a Debian rootfs on a real board whose only CPU is a real intel 4004 from the 1970s. The video is sped up at variable rates to demonstrate this without boring you. The clock and calendar in the video are accurate. A constant-rate video is linked below.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    If I may venture a guess:

    There are four of these chips (1302, 1105, 1507, 1202). Someone, trying to speed-talk, referred to them as the “four thousand-series chips” (instead of the “four, one-thousand-series chips”), and someone misheard or misunderstood that as the “4000-series chips”. After several levels of this telephone game, marketing got involved, and they were just renamed into the 4000 series instead of redoing the marketing documents.

    Just a guess.