An 80386 CPU S-100 Board

On 17 October 2012 16:17, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote: I honestly don't know. As I said, I am primarily a software guy, it's just that in most of my support roles I've had to do a bit of hardware stuff as well. I am happy to be the sort of board-swapper that Tony Duell holds in contempt; I was usually being paid to achieve cost-effective results ASAP, not to do a work of art. So I was just going by what Wikipedia said, TBH! I've certainly seen and used sockets for a 387SX and they were much like the 386SX shown on the WikiP link I gave, but with the pins curled under rather than splayed out like in that soldered-in example. OTOH I remember people doing things like fitting 486SLC chips onto the Acorn RISC PC's PC 2nd processor card. :?) Well that was in part my point. I wouldn't know an S100 card if you attempted to insert one into me, but when I read about... ... just that, the 16MB limit, then I thought "why not use the smaller cheaper simpler version of the 386 that only *supports* 16MB and has half as many legs to solder, half the bus width and so on." It seemed an obvious question to me; if one is building an S100 computer, and that means no more than 16MB, then use the easier chip that only supports 16MB. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884