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PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 12 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 · 12 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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This looks really cool, but I have immediate concerns about the lack of ZIF socket for something designed to take 30 year old chips.

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