One point in favor of the sprawling Linux ecosystem is its broad hardware support—the kernel officially supports everything from ’90s-era PC hardware to Arm-based Apple Silicon chips, thanks to ...
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Linux pulls support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU
Linux kernel developers have removed support for the Intel 486 CPU Linus Torvalds says there is zero real reason to maintain 486 compatibility Ingo Molnar authored patches eliminating 486-related ...
Tired of Windows? Sick of paying big money for Macs? Want a better, more secure desktop? Give Linux a try. 486s are old. Very, very old. Intel discontinued the 386 chip family in 2007. True, some ...
It's generally due to lack of CPU features. The reason 386 was dropped from all OS (and Microsoft did it in 1997 with NT 4) was pretty simple: it lacks the instructions the 486 added that make memory ...
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