OpenBSD is a perfectly servicable operating system on an old Atom board I have (nice router!), and on i386 only Core Duo iMacs/Macbooks long abandoned by Apple.

OpenBSD is a perfectly servicable operating system on an old Atom board I have (nice router!), and on i386 only Core Duo iMacs/Macbooks long abandoned by Apple. These will be perfectly good machines to use for a long time, and it's really great you can get up to date support on these systems from this great project. Obsolete means different things to different people. I'm a big fan of what Rust promises, but the solution is not that OpenBSD changes its policies or that OpenBSD drops i386. Rust should become self hosting on i386.