1997 February 26, Michael Reilly, “Re: All this talk about which is better, MacOS or Be os is going to be moot with the NEXT/MACOS”, in comp.sys.be.advocacy[1] (Usenet):
Some people have crawling 286s and 386s and even the 486s seem painfully slow.
2016 July 6, Michael Black, “Re: 32-bit Linux to be discontinued”, in comp.misc[2] (Usenet):
I'll point out that Slackware has tended to be more inclusive, for a long time it would run on 486s, though that stopped at some point.
