Comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7

"There is a herculean effort on the part of package maintainers to build software for distros, and no one has been building 32 bit version of software for years, even if it is possible to build from source."

This statement must be Linux-only

Pre-compiled packages for i386 are still available for all versions of NetBSD including the current one

I still compile software for i386 from pkgsrc

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/

NB. I'm not interested in graphical software, I prefer VGA textmode