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Interestingly, the Pentium Overdrive mentioned in your linked article will actually run relatively recent OSes - the latest release of Slackware, for instance,

Interestingly, the Pentium Overdrive mentioned in your linked article will actually run relatively recent OSes - the latest release of Slackware, for instance, should still run on it. I have the 83MHz version in my old 486 (though it's really not a 486 anymore - ha ha), and got Slackware booting on it out of sheer curiosity a few years ago. What surprised me is that, modern software aside, 14.x wasn't much slower than a period-accurate Linux - Slackware 14 (2010s) and Mandrake 7 (1999) booted at more or less the same speed.

giancarlostoro 4y ago
That's a really interesting observation, I sort of noticed C++ being slow to compile doesn't necessarily improve a whole lot even on newer hardware, so I wonder if there's a different OS that runs on 90s and 2010's hardware that could run better on more modern hardware.
userbinator 4y ago
Pentium Overdrive is basically a 586 in a 486 package... which also means, with an adapter, it could fit into a 386 mobo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29046117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29046117