• amigan@lemmy.dynatron.me
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    5 months ago

    286 Protected Mode is very different from 386 PM and there is no way Linux will would run on it.

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      5 months ago

      There is a project looking to do this kind of, known as elks that has images for 80286 chips. I have no idea why you’d want to do that to yourself though.

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        5 months ago

        Interesting. Reminds me of PC/IX, and it probably similarly doesn’t even enter pm, judging from it running also on an 8086.