Why fastDOOM is fast(fabiensanglard.net)
638 points by wicket | 201 comments
Fabien Sanglard's blog post explaining the optimizations that make FastDOOM, a DOS port of Doom, run faster on 486-era PCs like the IBM PS/1.
#486 on Hacker News
2 stories tagged 486, newest first.
Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 machine?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
402 points by segfaultbuserr | 96 comments
Retrocomputing Stack Exchange question about why breaking into the Windows NT 3.1 kernel debugger reboots a 486DX4 Compaq ProSignia machine.