[Gllug] retro computing

Christian Smith csmith at micromuse.com
Fri Oct 7 12:05:50 UTC 2005


On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Nix wrote:

>
>And that's the *real* reason distros have been dropping 386 support.
>(There's also the minor fact that almost nobody has working hardware
>anymore, and the 486 has now been on sale for *twenty years*...)
>


Come on, not quite. The 386 has been on sale for nearly 20 years (1986) I
believe, but the i486 was not released until 1989.

I've got a 386 laptop somewhere. I fancy a challenge.

Christian


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