*updating* 8088's

[Fred Cisin]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Chris M wrote:
> We've all seen different varieties of 8088 to 80286
> upgrades. A few at least plug into the 8088's socket.
> I saw a '286 to '486 upgrade (must have been similar
> in that respect) at a show a while back (didn't buy
> it). We also know about OverDrive products. What would
> happen if you pig-piled all these things in an old
> 8088 machines? What would happen? Cataclysmic
> explosion?

You would simply have the slowest, least compatible, and least reliable
modern machine available.  4.77MHz 640K Pentium Core 2 Duo?