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by FLT8 769 days ago
Also related: C64 booting Linux by emulating a RISC-V processor:

https://hackaday.com/2023/08/27/linux-on-a-commodore-64/

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Wow!

> There is a catch (rather: a couple) of course: It runs extremely slowly and it needs a RAM Expansion Unit (REU), as there is no chance to fit it all into just 64KiB.

> It even emulates virtual memory with an MMU.

https://github.com/onnokort/semu-c64

That reminds me of this similar project using an ARM emulator instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5581851