Greetings,
Why not build a better motherboard that can make you switch between CPU's or a special slot that can manage to carry a wide variety of standard CPU's.
For example, I bought this 'motherboard x' and bought an AMD cpu and a G4 processor. The special 'adaptor' that bundles with it is compatible or chageable to accept different variety of CPU's sizes and shapes.
In terms of Firmware, easy, you have a CD/DVD disk full of *offcial firmware ready for programming onto PROM.
Now here's what I like about this idea. This mother board has a firmware that can accept Amiga One or classic firmwares, C-one firmwares, Mac firmwares and other PC firmwares your heart desires!
* If I want an IMac G5 clone, yes it's possible. All you need is the MacOS installers from version 1 to X if you like. :-D
* If I want a real Amiga, user can write on chip a firm ware that can have ROM version 35.xx to 38.xx and can boot like the real thing! no need for Emulation!
* same with a C64 and so on and so forth... Feasible, right? Also, if it's cheap to produce. The price of that motherboard would be cheap too. I'd buy that motherboard!
Now tell me if this idea is feasible, would this be a next step in computing? Would it be fast enough? Who knows how many heads will turn? Would we,users, still struggle which CPU to use on different machine, which is better the-32bit-64bit-128bit, when it can fit allfor testing purposes too)? Who knows? Maybe such a motherboard already exists? I just can't find it in google yet. :-P
Just my ideas. Thanks for your thoughts. :-D
Regards,
GiZz72
