Re: Early version numbers......
Linux always required the 80386 CPU even in its early days. The 386 has memory-management hardware, which is necessary.
There is a different kernel, called ELKS, the Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset, which can run on 286, but normal Linux never did.
Minix 1 and 2 did, I believe, but not Linux.
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