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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days ago

Open-source Intel 486 mobo built from scratch in under 6 months for i486 chips — M8SBC-486's goal was to achieve Linux and Doom compatibility, but it achieves far more than that

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Open-source Intel 486 mobo built from scratch in under 6 months for i486 chips — M8SBC-486's goal was to achieve Linux and Doom compatibility, but it achieves far more than that

www.tomshardware.com

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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days ago

‘From the schematic and PCB to the chipset,’ all built from scratch. Design uses an FPGA for the chipset, bring your own i486.

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I don’t think populating the board with a ZIF instead of a pin hole socket would have changed anything.
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  Yeah, I talked my way into realizing the component is probably the patented part and it’s being resold.

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