[TriLUG] Stupid question time - Serial terminal and Linux

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Mike M wrote:

> I thought that with super-human powers you can load Linux on a x86 over
> COMx.  Googling around doesn't support this possibility though.  i

Typical x86, no.  But the hardware exists to pull this off.  Some 
specialty systems like Soekris boards support this as well but 99.9% of 
the x86 hardware you will ever see won't do this.