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    Linux-Entwickler beginnen, die Unterstützung für die 37 Jahre alte Intel 486-CPU zu entfernen – Chefboss Linus Torvalds sagt, dass es „keinen wirklichen Grund“ gibt, die Unterstützung fortzusetzen


    Linux-Entwickler beginnen, die Unterstützung für die 37 Jahre alte Intel 486-CPU zu entfernen – Chefboss Linus Torvalds sagt, dass es „keinen wirklichen Grund“ gibt, die Unterstützung fortzusetzen

    https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-devs-start-removing-support-for-37-year-old-intel-486-cpu-head-honcho-linus-torvalds-says-zero-real-reason-to-continue-support

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    1. midniteslayr on

      They say there is „zero real reason“ to continue supporting the 486, but it’ll come out that some random ass library in some rural farm county can’t use their old machines that have been doing inventory since the 80s because they can’t find any old software to run on it, and Linux *was* the option for them until 7 came out and it’s a shit show now. They don’t even know how long Betty Sue has had Pet Semetary out for!

    2. mobilehavoc on

      Was my first CPU and man I was so jealous of people with the DX variant that had an FPU. I couldn’t turn on some features in games due to a lack of a math co-processor lol

    4. beekersavant on

      I feel like he is saying the five nerds who are still trying to optimize their first computers to run something (anything) modern is not a real reason. But isn’t the Techspot headline of “Nerd gets modern kitchen timer to run on 486” enough to continue support indefinitely.

    5. Moderate-Extremism on

      Just as an FYI, this isn’t what people think, the old 32-bit architectures exist because for a while crazy people made embedded systems with them, AMD geode is in some routers, etc.

      But yeah, it’s silly, they’re weaker than literally an ESP32 you can buy nowadays, only missing a proper MMU.

    6. DB-CooperOnTheBeach on

      486 DX2-80 crew checking in 🫡

      LILO booted dos 6.22/win 3.11, OS/2 Warp, and Slackware all on a 540 MB HDD.

    13. cyber_r0nin on

      So… What’s the real reason to do this?
      Does it reduce kennel size and compile time?
      Otherwise why not just leave it?

    16. Quinocco on

      At this point, don’t we know exactly how many people are running an up-to-date Linux on a 486?

    17. politifox on

      Awww I always wanted one of those I was stuck on my 286 basically until I could get a pentium… never really got to experience Tie fighter.

    19. atomic_transaction on

      I always wondered about that turbo button… like, why would you not want turbo mode enabled?

    21. AMidnightHaunting on

      Fine time to do this now with more and more folks building and operating dream period accurate machines 😭 I supposed they want Winders though, as that’s usually what these folks are targeting, aka “DOS & 95 and/or 98, XP, and Winders 7”

    22. CapoExplains on

      37 years? I’d be happy if windows supported CPUs for more than 3.7 years.

    23. Odd_Photograph_7591 on

      It’s confusing to me, how organizations decide to stop supporting something, when with AI it should be very easy and near costless

    24. ktgeek on

      486DX66 with 4MB of ram is where I started my Linux journey in Jan 1994. A few months later I upgraded to 8MB so I could run X so I could run Mosaic.

      It’s amazing I could still be running Linux on that PC i’ve replaced a dozen times over.

      Good times.

    25. TheorySudden5996 on

      There was something so cool about the computers back in the 90s. Like everything was fresh and yea shit crashed left and right but that was all part of it. Everything works a little too easy nowadays.

    27. ssowinski on

      286sx with 1mb ram and a 129 mb hdd here. Salesman told us we’d never fill that hard drive, ever. Spent $200 in 1990 buying a second 1mb ram so I can play games faster. Bought a sound blaster 16 and a 256 modem as well.

    28. UpsetKoalaBear on

      Just to note, x86 in its original form had its patent expire a while back.

      Modern x86 patents are in extensions like MMX/SSE. So whilst you theoretically could make a new x86 CPU with the same instruction support for these older chips, they still wouldn’t run the majority of modern applications/OS’s.

    30. IAmFitzRoy on

      What?? I just sold my 286 to get this second hand 486 and now I’m forced to get a Pentium???? Why Linus?

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