Hold the phone, people, the Hubble is still broken. There was word early Thursday morning that a Monkey Island-era 486 backup computer was going to take the reigns and begin mission critical ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

We have a few (7) old DOS based 486s left and I cannot find keyboards left to use as the old ones break, due to the HUGE plug size. Looks to be twice the PS/2 plug size. I have lots of PS/2 and USB ...