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Does it run NetBSD?


Downvote? Seriously? It was a serious question. NetBSD runs everywhere, even 40 years old vaxen, so why wouldn’t it run on Psion?


It's an 8086. Well, an NEC V20.

No MMU = no Unix.


There doesn't seem to be a port for 16-bit CPUs. But maybe Linux in the form of ELKS if the memory allows.




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