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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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[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

23 years after the first x64 CPU rolled off the assembly lines, Linux is still supporting it.