Comment They do? (Score 1) 367
I hope you're being confused by the situation (well I don't wish confusion for you)
As far as I know Debian drops support for older 32bit x86 CPU, but does not drop support for 32bit x86 CPU.
CPU compliant with i486 and i586 will be dropped, while CPU compliant with i686 will work.
This should mean an AMD K6/2 won't run, but a Pentium Pro will run (due to some missing or broken instruction or feature in the K6). An Athlon (original and XP) will run but might be unable to run certain software that requires SSE2, such as Firefox 52 and linux versions of evil software.
AMD Geode won't run, or maybe might, I don't know.
Cyrix won't run.
Pentium, Pentium MMX and 80486 definitely won't run. Although I imagine some people might make an unofficial, unsupported i486 version (no idea how hard it'll be but in the same way you still can find some Ubuntu for PowerPC Macs)
I think that by the way, Pentium Pro or Pentium II 233 machines are more likely to have survived to this day than K6/2 450 and such.
Unless you have uncommon specialty hardware we shouldn't have to fear anything about the old desktops with 512MB and 1GB RAM.