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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think the main impact here is that there are plenty of embedded system-on-a-chip sort of things specifically designed for industrial applications not only still out there in the world, but still being actively manufactured that are based on the 486 architecture.

For retro gaming nerds, their 486 machines would all be running some variant of DOS anyway.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

How many of those are getting continuously updated to the latest mainline kernel though?

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

I believe you.