Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004 Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks.

An incredibly dedicated and talented enthusiast has managed to boot Linux on a 4-bit microprocessor meant for pocket calculators from 1971.

Programmer and hardware enthusiast Dmitry Grinberg has shared a video in which he boots and runs commands on an Intel 4004-powered PC running Linux. The video demonstrates the excruciating time to ...

Intel’s original CPU, the 4004, was built as a calculator chip, but an incredible system has been built around it that can run Debian.

WTF?! A well-known hacker has done the impossible. He got a stripped-down version of Linux to run on a 4-bit Intel chip from the early 1970s. Sure, it takes nearly five days for the kernel to boot ...

The 4-bit Intel 4004 from 1971 predates the modern PC and the x86 CPU, but that doesn't mean it can be used to run Linux... very, very slowly.

In short, he managed to get the kernel of Debian Linux to boot on a 4-bit Intel 4004 processor, the first ever commercially manufactured microprocessor.

The Intel 4004 was the first commercially available microprocessor back in 1971, and now it can run Linux. So, given the 4004’s very limited architecture and 4-bit bus, how can it perform this ...

MUSEUM EXHIBIT circa Summer 2063 RetroCon "...This Linux kernel compile was started by Dmitry on December 4th, 2024 on a 4-bit 4004 CPU emulating a 32-bit MIPS CPU.

The Intel 4004 was among the first microprocessors and one of the first to use the MOS silicon-gate technology. In the decades long race to build bigger CPUs, it’s been mostly forgotten.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Intel's 4004 processor, the first commercially available microprocessor built on a single chip. Originally designed for a Japanese desk calculator, it ...

Tom’s Hardware flagged up this left-field experiment, undertaken by a programmer, Dmitry Grinberg, who set about using the Intel 4004 to boot up Linux (Debian, to be precise).