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Comment Re:Not a 486 thing, but... (Score 1) 71

Actually, many consumer gigabit Ethernet switches lack 10Mbps support these days. They are 100/1000baseT only.

Business and enterprise switches though I've found (including Cisco ones, which you can find dirt cheap used) still are 10/100/1000Mbps. Even newer business and enterprise class switches retain support.

Of course, once you step into 10Gbps Ethernet, you have to be careful because many only are 10Gbps only, while some do support 1/10Gbps. 2.5Gbps support is iffy unless it's specified which is annoying since many things have 2.5Gbps ports.

As for 486, there are still new CPUs using it. The Vortex86 has a CPU that executes 486 instructions though newer ones do support Pentium minus the FPU. These are modern chips, with IDE emulation of SD cards, Ethernet and USB support, as well as running at speeds of 800-1GHz.

And you've seen them used - any fast food restaurant with the ticket screens is powered by a mini PC using these SoCs. They do run Windows and MS-DOS, and early restaurant e-ticket systems used MS-DOS. But later ones nowadays use some form of Linux.

Comment Re:"Force-updating" (Score 1) 59

I didn't say anything about which user you are or how much permissions you have. The fact that these OSes allow even *root* to make changes to the OS, is insecure in itself. By contrast, Android and iOS strictly limit what installers can do.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

Even if you do have "god" permissions, an Android or iOS installer can't update the OS itself.

HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA

Keep going, this is precious

Comment Re:Typical Stupidity (Score 0) 71

if you can't figure that out I can only guess it is probably due to you mixing up M & GB.

Oh, are you one of the stupid clowns I've corrected on b and B? I bet you are.

Plenty of 486 back in the days had more than 16M of ram.

This is bullshit. A percent of a percent of 486s had more than 16MB.

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