Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 CPU era - and do some serious legacy clean up ...

More than 140,000 lines of code bite the dust as ancient CPUs, bus mice, and other legacy leftovers face the chop ...

Although everyone’s favorite Linux overlord [Linus Torvalds] has been musing on dropping Intel 486 support for a while now, it would seem that this time now has finally come. In a Linux patch ...

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 13: The Intel 486 microprocessor (left) was introduced in 1989 and marked a significant improvement in the processing capacity of computers over that of the previous Intel 386 ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Ever wanted to run Windows XP on old hardware? Well, you might have done a couple of decades ago, when Windows XP was released - but probably not now, ...

Out of curiosity, what is the oldest computer ars readers still actively use? Mine is an old Intel core duo system that powers a hobby cnc machine on the attic. In one of many boxes there, an IBM ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. YouTube channel The Eric Experiment has documented how he built - from scratch - a tiny custom, fully functional 486 PC. Using actual parts, this is not a ...

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 ...