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Dude it’s been almost 20 years of support and it’s not like they brick today. If you want to run one it will still work for years.
When was the last time you ran a 486?
Over 30 years of support :)
It's about 15 years ago I used a 486 based embedded board with ethernet, can't remember the name of it.