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  • hankbond1 minute ago
    Can someone explain the implications of this?
  • geerlingguy1 hour ago
    So... at what point does someone re-create a 386 or 6501 but using only a motherboard, with no discrete circuits?
    • Cieric51 minutes ago
      Shouldn&#x27;t that have already been do-able? I know the The MOnSter 6502 is a thing. The 386 I have no idea about though, that&#x27;s to far out of my wheel house.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;monster6502.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;monster6502.com&#x2F;</a>
      • duskwuff20 minutes ago
        A replica 386 would be impractically large - it&#x27;s got around 275k transistors, compared to the 3.5k in the 6502. At the same scale as the MOnSter 6502, that&#x27;d be about a hundred square feet of PCB.<p>The number of layers isn&#x27;t even remotely close to being a constraint. The real i386DX was manufactured on a process which only supported two metal layers, and a PCB version isn&#x27;t subject to the same constraints as silicon.
  • rsync44 minutes ago
    OKI ? As in, my cellular scanner ?