Intel responded by making a Pentium OverDrive upgrade chip for 486 motherboards, which was a modified Pentium core that ran up to 83 MHz on boards with a 25 or 33 MHz front-side bus clock.

Apr 6, 2026 · Perhaps it is time to send your 37-year-old Intel 486 system into retirement, as far as modern Linux goes, as OS kernel developers appear to have started to dismantle support for this …

1 day ago · Linux kernel developers have begun removing support for the Intel 486 CPU, a processor first introduced in 1989. The move comes as modern Linux distros have grown increasingly resource …

Apr 6, 2026 · Plenty of CPU architectures have come and gone over the last few decades. The x86 family alone has seen a long line of chips rise to prominence and fade away as newer generations …

4 days ago · It remains to be seen whether 2026 is really the year when Linux says farewell to the Intel 486 after doing so for the Intel 386 back in 2012.

6 days ago · That doesn't mean no one in the world is running Linux on a still-kickin' 486 PC; it just means that if they are, they're likely doing so on a much older version of the Linux kernel.

6 days ago · It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year.

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Jun 29, 2025 · Intel 486 featured much faster bus transfers - 1 CPU cycle as opposed to two or more CPU cycles for the 80386 bus. Floating-point unit was integrated into 80486DX CPUs.

1 day ago · Linux Ends Intel 486 Support After Decades Linux drops Intel 486 support, marking the end of compatibility for one of the oldest processors still recognized by modern systems. The decision …