WTB: 486 Bridgeboard

[CannonFodder]

bloodline wrote:

motorollin wrote:
I'm thinking of getting a 486 Bridgeboard for my A4000, just for the Geek factor :-)

Admit it, come on... you just want to run AROS on your A4K ;-) :lol:

How cool would that be! :-D

[CannonFodder]

motorollin wrote:
Would it run on a 486?

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moto

AROS-20070407-i386-pc-boot-floppy.zip :-)

[CannonFodder]

Plaz wrote:

the goldengate cards all have a soldered cpu...

That wouldn't stop me.... 22+ years of soldering thru-hole, surface mount and even mil-spec experience. :-D

If 486slc isn't pin compatible with a normal 486 though, then that *would* stop me. I never stopped to find out exactly what chip the 486 bridgeboard had. I had assumed it was a normal 486 flavor of some sort, not a 386 pin compatible crippled thing.

Plaz

A bloke I went to college with had a Cyrix 486 CPU that clipped over the top of his soldered on 386 CPU.  This was in the early 90's.

[CannonFodder]

Jeff wrote:
I had two of those. The Evergreen model 300 "Rev to 486" clipped on to the A2386 and ran at 75 mhz. It needed a dos driver to load the clock tripler at boot up as I remember. I sold that long ago.

I still have the Cyrix 486slc clip on somewhere that runs at 50 mhz. They both worked pretty well, however are dog slow by todays standards.

Try AROS on it if you can and let us know how it runs. :-)