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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)

submitted 2 days ago by Sunshine@piefed.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 0 points 2 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.