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by dehrmann 2000 days ago
I year ago, I got my ~first computer, a Pentium 2, to run the latest x86 Debian release with minimal effort. Half of what made it possible was that the P2 was the second chip to have 686 instructions, and that's the oldest supported target for Debian. It didn't hurt that the motherboard's 440BX chipset is popular with VMs, and the board had a USB port, so in many ways, it looks modern.
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>It didn't hurt that the motherboard's 440BX chipset is popular with VMs

Bochs has that among i440FX :)

Still, I can't emulate some spin-o-rama (Google Street View like) games fast enough under w95 on my AMD Turion...