Greg Helledy on 10 Jan 2018 12:14:23 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] old equipment



Hate to double-reply, but somebody beat out Keith and has a Linux
solution that IS immune to both Spectre and Meltdown:

http://yeokhengmeng.com/2018/01/make-the-486-great-again/

Wow, OSes have grown that much that it takes 11 minutes just to boot up, and 5 to shut down today's linux on a 486? And this was not a regular 486 but an AMD 5X86, faster than any 486 Intel ever sold. My home computer was a 486-100 (the fastest Intel model) and I thought of it as a fast machine, at least until Quake came out.

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