<ul><li>Hardware hacker Dmitry Grinberg has successfully booted Linux on the Intel 4004 microprocessor.</li><li>The Intel 4004, with just 2,300 transistors and a clock speed of 740 kHz, is the world's first commercial microprocessor.</li><li>Grinberg achieved this by creating an emulator that runs on the 4004 and emulates a MIPS R3000 processor.</li><li>The emulator, along with minimal hardware emulation, allows a stripped-down Debian Linux to boot to a command prompt.</li></ul>

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