Linus Torvalds sees “zero real reason for anybody to waste one second” on them.

I didn’t know whether to mark this NSFW or not but it’s time to buy a new computer if you haven’t upgraded in multiple decades.

  • moody@lemmings.world
    69·
    14 days ago

    I’m kind of shocked that it’s only been 18 years since the last 486 chip was made. It was launched in 1989 and discontinued in 2008, while the original Pentium was launched in 1993 and discontinued in 1999. Hell, the Pentium 4 was discontinued in 2007.

    • Vopyr@lemmy.world
      25·
      14 days ago

      It’s quite incredible, and very interesting. I wonder why they continued to produce these CPUs.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          27·
          14 days ago

          Yup. Airplanes, for example, take a lot of validation. It’s extremely expensive to retest a new configuration, so they make one computer, get it validated, and use it unmodified for the next thirty years.

          This is why the Boeing Max 8 thing was a big deal. They made approved modifications, but found in rare conditions it could cause unexpected and dangerous flight conditions. But, a times b times c was estimated to be less than the cost of doing it properly, so they didn’t.

        • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          13 days ago

          Yeah, the amount of industrial machinery being controlled by ancient hardware would baffle a lot of people.

          For a comparison people might relate to: There are ATMs running twenty year old versions of Windows XP.