A hobbyist built a 486-style motherboard using an FPGA and pure determination

A hobbyist programmer named Piotr "maniek86" Grzesik recently unveiled his latest project. The M8SBC-486 motherboard is ...
Hackaday

M8SBC-486 Is An FPGA-Based “Kinda PC Compatible” 486 SBC

[Editor’s note: We got this one wrong! The computer uses an actual 486: the FPGA is running essentially as the chipset, interfacing the RAM and the ISA bus with the CPU. And since this went to press, ...
Ars Technica

Calling all XFree86 gurus...need help with old S3 card in a 486 system....

I can't get X to work properly on this box. The card works fine in Windows 98, so I know it's not a hardware problem.<P>The only label on the card is VL41C/V5 -- from searching with Google is was ...