Somebody has ported
UNIX to the GameBoy Advance. Not Linux, UNIX, as in 5th Edition UNIX (1974 vintage), running on a PDP-11 emulator. Mind you, as the GBA has no keyboard and no means to add one, it's not very useful, being limited to executing a sequence of commands compiled into it. But it's impressive nonetheless. (via bOING bOING)
not just someone, but the awesome Amit Singh: resume here: http://www.kernelthread.com/resume/ the author of "over one hundred implementations of the tower of hanoi problem (http://www.kernelthread.com/hanoi/) (in every computer language you could think of....has tried most operating systems (http://www.kernelthread.com/os/) a number of publications (http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/)...and a number of other amazing things...check his site out...