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by qingcharles 725 days ago
I think Linux dropped support for 486, right? That was the only thing I remember that supported dual 486.
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NCR had a couple of SMP 486 boxen (NCR 3450, 3550 & 3600) that were supported by SCO Unix, SVR4 and (early) NT. I think they had support for OS/2. ALR, Unisys and Compaq made somewhat similar 486s with roughly similar OS support (although I vaguely recall the Unisys stuff was OEMed elseware). The support problem was 486 predated standardized SMP hardware (APIC), so it was all custom hardware.