I think the main impact here is that there are plenty of embedded system-on-a-chip sort of things specifically designed for industrial applications not only still out there in the world, but still being actively manufactured that are based on the 486 architecture.
For retro gaming nerds, their 486 machines would all be running some variant of DOS anyway.
Most are not really in need of any updates I would think. Aside from some, I’d venture to guess these are standalone systems running machinery. If they’re linked up then it’s with something else that’s not really vulnerable such as Lantastic or Novell maybe? Or I could be talking out of my ass entirely. But these are not systems that they need to worry about the modern threats of cyberspace.
I think the main impact here is that there are plenty of embedded system-on-a-chip sort of things specifically designed for industrial applications not only still out there in the world, but still being actively manufactured that are based on the 486 architecture.
For retro gaming nerds, their 486 machines would all be running some variant of DOS anyway.
How many of those are getting continuously updated to the latest mainline kernel though?
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I believe you.
Absolutely none of them.
Source: some tools that are a part of my job run these kinds of machines
Most are not really in need of any updates I would think. Aside from some, I’d venture to guess these are standalone systems running machinery. If they’re linked up then it’s with something else that’s not really vulnerable such as Lantastic or Novell maybe? Or I could be talking out of my ass entirely. But these are not systems that they need to worry about the modern threats of cyberspace.