Linus Torvalds suggests the 80486 arch belongs in a museum, not the Linux kernel
Can't run Rust on a 486.
This is more an issue with the toolchain than anything else though. Other distributions are hitting the same wall, in OpenBSD, for example.
Apparently you can still buy 80486 chips:
https://octopart.com/search?q=80486¤cy=USD&specs=0&cat...
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33308369