derSammler wrote: That is not legal, of course. A chipset design is not only protected by patents (which are expired in most cases) but also by copyright. So you need the permission for cloning
But if they're expired, why would that be illegal?
derSammler wrote:...the production cost of a single one may end up at 500 $ or more.
Cheers! 😲 😲
derSammler wrote:All this aside, while it would be possible, it makes no sense because of the costs. Unless you're planing to make 100,000+ pieces...
What's the problem? Let's call uncle Elon... he got plenty of money, tell him make a vintage computing museum on Mars, and with the exceeding units you can gift us all happy!
Let's spec the mobo!
Let's call it the PastFutureTimeWarpElonSuper7 mobo revision 1.0:
• Dual socket
• Socket 7, with voltage and supplemental "adaptor oversocket" to be backward compatible back to Socket 4 for Pentiums 60 and 66
• Socket 3
• Buses settable to 25, 33, 40, 50, 60, 66, 75, 90, and 100 MHz
• 1 MB replaceable (just in case) pipeline-burst 10ns double-banked L2 Cache, covering up to 128 MB RAM
• 4 SIMM RAM slots, FPM, EDO, 60 ns compatible (max. 128 MB total)
• 4 DIMM slots (help me here for the best specs for the Pentium and VX Chipset era) (max. 256 MB total)
• 5 EISA slots (fully ISA-compatible both 8 and 16 bits cards)
• 4 PCI slots, full length, 64 bit, 66 MHz, compliant with ALL PCI specs from 1.0 to the very latest one, able to run all kind of PCI cards, from Adam and Eve's wooden hair comb made with local woods, to the latest cards
• Each single PCI slot settable in terms of voltage, speed, etc., so that a 33 MHz 32 bit card, for example, won't force another 64 bit 66 MHz card to run at lower bandwidth
• 3 VLB slots, just in case you already own or would like to source some VLB cards somebody is fond of
• NO AGP SLOTS: that's too late in the future: the whole point is to make a revival of those years, like squeezing the best performance possible from those components and peripherals. Put an AGP slot and it tastes more like Pentium II or later, and you can start adding a lot of later video cards that makes no philosophical sense
• Integrated via 64 bit 66 MHz (if not direct channel with the CPU!) EIDA UATA 166 compatible, 2x2 devices, fully friendly with any possible additional ATA or SCSI controllers
• NO SATA: same reason as NO AGP, see above
• Both compatible with 5v based old PSUs and with ultra modern PSUs, including fanless and Platinum and stuff like that
• Compatible with all kinds of CPUs that existed on the planet from the day Socket 3 was born to the very last Socket 7 physically soldered on the very last specimen of mobo ever produced, via all kinds of settings, jumpers, combinations of bus frequencies, multipliers, voltages, write-through and write-back L1 cache settings.... etc.
• BIOS software: fully flexible, total and complete in terms of settings and features (help me here.... examples?)
• anything else????
Go uncle Elon, go!!!!
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