Big Pink wrote on 2021-01-21, 16:45:
Sphere478 wrote on 2021-01-19, 20:46:I’m still wondering about the post I found where a guy said he stuck a k6 into a socket 370 motherboard after clipping off a pin and said it worked but ran hot until he fried the mobo with a screw driver accidentally a few weeks later.
Were it possible, you'd expect someone to have made a slocket-like adapter by now.
386->486 transputers existed (but that’s it)
A trans puter so you could mount a k6-2 into a socket 370 would be fun but it would be similar to PCI to ISA bridge, in effect an entire chipsets worth of goodies to translate between the 2.
That said my electronics design teacher said that he could easily make a single chipset that would be signal compatible with all 486/Pentium/Celeron CPU architectures
He also showed how you could easily latch cpu socket pins so you could use one breadboard like socket for all cpu generations switching pinout son the fly
He did it mainly as a thought experiment but stated cost would be minimal as it would only take about 10% more silicon and his idea involved the chipset being soldered directly to the cpu socket to reduce board space and improve signal quality
Too bad we only briefly saw his idea on some obscure hybrid 386/486 boards (not the auto configured Omni socket)
Could have crapped on the dedicated brand motherboard idea.