> AMD
> N80L286-10/S
> H 924CPPG
> (m) (c) INTEL 1982
>
> This 1-inch square CPU chip has 17-pins on each 4-sides. It's not the
> normal straight pins, but rather rounded, curved connectors that plug
> into a matching socket.
It's definitely a 286. I've got several of the things lying around, and
they have exactly that sort of pin arrangement.
> I thought the 286 chips were soldered onto the motherboard and wouldn't
> use a socket as this chip would require.
Some were, some weren't. My old Elonex 286 machines all had small square
chips with rouded pins on the base, as the AMD above, but another old one I
used to have (may have been a Compaq, but not sure) had a 286 DIP like the
Siemens.
The Cyrix and AMD 486/586 chips would require a compatible motherboard to
operate IIRC. They have different power supplied than the Intel components,
and sometimes different pinouts.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett, http://www.deltasoft.com)
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