Ah, the retro-computing rabbit hole. Harmlessly divorced from any real-world consequences, but truly satisfying nonetheless. A real honey trap for nerds.
I just had to click that 6 more comments expander
I just had to click that 6 more comments expander
But a 486?? That brings back too many memories of blue screens and waiting forever because we couldn't afford memory and was thus swapping to disk. Still too soon for me, I suppose.
I still reserve the PET as a perfect machine because 1) it's the first machine I really used as a kid, and 2) I haven't yet been foolish enough to try and go back to one in over 40 years now.