[kstrauser]

It is as long as you don’t consider the footprint of the person using it. If it runs more slowly than a modern system such that a human has to spend more time working with it, then it’s almost certainly less resource friendly.

[selfhoster11]

486s ran plenty fast in their time. With a tiny bit of modern hardware like the addition of an SSD, the only thing stopping them from being blazing-fast is modern bloated software stacks.