Re: can't resist
Oh FFS, it's a good hack is all. There is a long and distinguished tradition of booting another OS on something a bit odd that wasn't designed for it.
Have a look at Alan Cox's page on G+ for some nifty examples of resurrecting old hardware to boot some form of Linux kernel and other, frankly weird but cool, experiments. Also I believe someone managed to get Linux to boot on a hard disc (that's "on", not "from" - even I can do that)
I note it's not a native port which boots directly from the hardware, running only in an emulator but it is still a good hack.