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		projektfu on May 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting... And on the PDP-10, it contains a virtual robot to toggle the virtual switches on the virtual PDP-11, to load a loader that runs the virtual tape drive to load the startup program for the PDP-10. j/k I have no idea how linux boots on Z.

cbm-vic-20 on May 25, 2023 [–]

This actually isn't too far from the truth. The VAX 8800 series of minicomputers used a cut-down PDP-11 to boot it, and to act as a console.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_8000#VAX_Console

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