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

How many 486s had 32M or more RAM? I think I had 32M in my Cyrix 686, but that was long ago and close to the end of the 486 era (almost all due to AMD's 133MHz or more 486 clone). Maybe they could ...

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 ...

It's a given that the question "What's the oldest computer you can run modern Linux on?" would produce a more gratifying answer than "What's the oldest computer you can run modern Windows on?" given ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...