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balou23last Friday at 5:50 PM1 replyview on HN

You'd better be, we have certain expectations from you now /s

But more seriously... I don't think that Linux has ever been booted on a non-monolithic CPU (I wanted to say 'discrete cpu' first, but there's some PDP-11s with 4 chip CPUs)


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dmitrygrlast Friday at 6:50 PM

one could argue that 4004 is it. It does not really do memory ops at all. all decoding for memory ops happens inside the memory chips. but yeah - not non-monolithic enough