[chasil]

It is unlikely to be PowerShell.

On my old i386 server, this is my fastest shell:

  $ ll /bin/dash
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85368 Jan  5  2023 /bin/dash

The set of features in the POSIX.2 shell is designed to minimize resource usage.

This is simply a place that PowerShell cannot go.

[Pet_Ant]

i386 isn't even supported by Linux anymore and has less power than a Raspberry Pi. It's not the indicator of the future of anything. It might be nostalgic, but it's ewaste and better served by a Pi.

[chasil]

My mistake, my legacy rhel5 i686 on a 22nm Xeon.

This does not mean that resource-constrained environments do not exist.