> If you're skeptical that this feat is possible with a raw 4004, you're right: The 4004 itself is far too limited to run Linux directly. Instead, Grinberg created a solution that is equally impressive: an emulator that runs on the 4004 and emulates a MIPS R3000 processor—the architecture used in the DECstation 2100 workstation that Linux was originally ported to. This emulator, along with minimal hardware emulation, allows a stripped-down Debian Linux to boot to a command prompt.
...and also a lot more practical than writing a C compiler that can compile the Linux kernel (not to mention other tools that you might need) for the 4004.
However, one major issue with this (aside from the slow slow speed) is the limited RAM - I assume this requires lots of swapping from the SD card to work?
Unless the title is internationalised somehow (possible, but I doubt it), it's "4.76" in the original article. That's what happens when submitters editorialise ;-)
Yes, in India we use 3 places for the first and then 2 places for the rest. But comma was never a thing.
Fun fact: In India we use upto Crore as mentioned in the link, but recently had to learn upto Lakh Crore as the politicians looted bigger recently and went beyond normal. :)
That's cool