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28 years after the final Intel 486 desktop CPUs rolled off assembly lines, Linux is finally dropping support for it (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 days ago

There's an ungodly insane number of old industrial control systems still banging around out there on 486 processors and custom ISA cards. It might never actually go away.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 days ago

Yeah but those aren't going to be running Linux 7.0. I'd be shocked if they ran anything newer than 2.6, if that new and Linux at all.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 5 days ago

I'd be surprised if they had been updated at all after their installation was signed off.

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