> I still have that installed on a i386 machine, but not booted since years. Did it even work usefully? While Linux itself retains backwards compatible drivers

> I still have that installed on a i386 machine, but not booted since years. Did it even work usefully? While Linux itself retains backwards compatible drivers for a long time, X.org and others aren't quite as diligent. E.g., five years ago I could not run any up to date distribution on Pentium 4 era notebooks with anything more than unaccelerated VESA framebuffers, because there were no compatible drivers for their integrated graphics card any more. (At the same time, we still had Pentium 4 servers in production use!)