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raszyesterday at 1:07 AM1 replyview on HN

I have a good example - Piotr Grzesik's prototype of 486 SBC recently covered on Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/m8sbc-86-is-an-fpga-based-ki... and HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578601

https://imgur.com/gallery/486-homebrew-computer-lsUiWdw#dIBt...

Looks like something that shouldnt work at all :)


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jacquesmtoday at 4:26 AM

Indeed, by rights that shouldn't work. But it does and he threw in an ISA bus just for the heck of it and that works too. And all of this at a very respectable clock speed. Mad props.

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