Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 29th Nov 2008 00:43 UTC
El Reg has a write-up on the amazingly beautiful and hopelessly impractical Honeywell Kitchen Computer. We've covered this bizarre piece of computing history before on OSNews, in my list of the ten most beautiful computers. For those that have no idea what I'm talking about, read on for more details. Trust me, you want to know.
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Member since:2005-07-24
Linux has always been way too bloated to ever have had a hope of being ported to this machine 
Well, 16k is a bit tight, to say the least. Even for uclinux:
http://tinyurl.com/583a9p
...as it's not certain that this machine has a paged memory manage unit, based on the description.
I think we can be pretty sure that it doesn't. However, uclinux does not need one.
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2006-05-26
Linux has always been way too bloated to ever have had a hope of being ported to this machine
There's probably a few things the processor hardware is missing that Linux would require, too, as it's not certain that this machine has a paged memory manage unit, based on the description.