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Re:Intel 486: 30 years old and still fascinating by phendrenad2 on Monday August 16, 2021 @02:33AM (#28195497)
30 years and it's still hard to emulate using software or FPGAs.
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Re:Intel 486: 30 years old and still fascinating by johndoe0815 on Monday August 16, 2021 @03:50AM (#28195877)
The ao486 core is available since 2014: https://opencores.org/projects/ao486

It's only a 486SX (so no FPU), but it can at least run Linux (kernel 3.13.1 tested) and Windows 95.

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