20 Nov
2007
20 Nov
'07
2:28 a.m.
On 19 Nov 2007 at 17:24, Chris M wrote:
We've all seen different varieties of 8088 to
80286
upgrades. A few at least plug into the 8088's socket.
I saw a '286 to '486 upgrade (must have been similar
in that respect) at a show a while back (didn't buy
it). We also know about OverDrive products. What would
happen if you pig-piled all these things in an old
8088 machines? What would happen? Cataclysmic
explosion?
Were there ever 8086 to 80286 upgrades for the few
machines that used them?
I don't know--but there were plenty of single-board computers that
simply plugged into an ISA slot--Pentium included. Most likely if
you overdid it, though, your power supply would run out of gas.
But, at the expense of stating the obvious, what's the point?
Cheers,
Chuck
(who also ruminates upon other cosmic questions--such as why the IDE
for a PIC with 1K of memory is 64MB zipped...)
Cheers,
Chuck