A footnote in the week’s technology news came from Linus Torvalds, as he floated the idea of abandoning support for the Intel 80486 architecture ... as a complete 486 PC on a chip with only ...

In late 1989, the 486 came out, offering faster speed ... See 286. The original PC launched by IBM in 1981 used Intel's 16-bit 8088 CPU. This chip family was designed so that the installed base ...

And, if you want to run these programs on bare metal rather than in an emulator, it is actually possible to build a new Intel 486 gaming PC, which operates almost exactly like a PC from the 90s ...

Ancient processors could soon no longer be supported by the Linux kernel. The goal: less complexity and testing effort.