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Linux on an 8 bit microcontroller

2012-04-02 16:29:33.146753+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

At this point you've undoubtedly seen this everywhere else, but: Dmitry Grinberg ran Linux on an 8 bit Atmel AVR microcontroller, actually both the ATmega1284p and the ATmega644a, by writing an ARM emulator and running Linux under the virtual ARM machine.

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