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Some stuff turns to e-waste because it's no longer supported by software. Some stuff turns to e-waste because it's just so goddamn old. The last ones of these architecture had a whopping 233MHz. My first PC that I got new as a kid was faster than that (must have been a Pentium II, while i586 is Pentium). I highly doubt there are many of these systems left in operation, especially not with new kernels.
A lot and i mean a lot of industrial controllers are running on 486s. Intel was producing 486s up until 2007. And a lot of companies wont get rid of controllers if they continue to work.
And who the fuck cares if their industrial controller is getting the latest update of Arch Linux? If you have such an important industrial controller that you haven't replaced it in decades, you're not running the latest kernel anyway.
You do if want to support modern hardware. Just because the brains are old doesnt mean the peripherals are.
Eh... What? Not really.