Building An 8-bit Linux PC

http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit

uARM is certainly no speed demon. It takes about 2 hours to boot to bash prompt ("init=/bin/bash" kernel command line). Then 4 more hours to boot up the entire Ubuntu ("exec init" and then login). Starting X takes a lot longer.

somehow there's VGA output

http://vimeo.com/39286771

jeezus

although to be fair ubuntu is hardly light on its toes. boot arch on that bitch and i bet you it would take ~30 minutes

also booting to bash would take a while

i wonder how long it'd take to load way lighter shells like ksh or dash.

but the real question remains;

how long does it take to boot emacs?

emacs -nw is pretty light on its toes

good to know this PC can run two operating systems in addition to probably risc os

can it run risc os? nvm that's supposed to be optimized for the beaglebone and raspberry pi and virtualacorn so no

i guarantee this isn't too far off from a beaglebone and its way more powerful than any microcontroller you can buy running an avr