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Did Minix ever run on 8-bit? I remember running it on an 8088-based PC, which was sort of an 8/16 bit hybrid.

An 8088 was a 16-bit cpu with an 8-bit bus, so it was slower (and cheaper) but ran exactly the same code.

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