*updating* 8088's

Grant Stockly grant at stockly.com
Mon Nov 19 19:52:59 CST 2007


At 04:24 PM 11/19/2007, you 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?
>  Were there ever 8086 to 80286 upgrades for the few
>machines that used them?

I'd like to know that...  The Overdrive will run XP at 8MHz.  It 
would be fun to see an 8088 booting XP.  : )

Grant



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