*updating* 8088's

[Chuck Guzis]

On 19 Nov 2007 at 17:24, 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?
>  Were there ever 8086 to 80286 upgrades for the few
> machines that used them?

I don't know--but there were plenty of single-board computers that 
simply plugged into an ISA slot--Pentium included.  Most likely if 
you overdid it, though, your power supply would run out of gas.

But, at the expense of stating the obvious, what's the point?

Cheers,
Chuck
(who also ruminates upon other cosmic questions--such as why the IDE 
for a PIC with 1K of memory is 64MB zipped...)

Cheers,
Chuck