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I'm reminded of the Mockingboard. It was pretty much just a 386 with a ton of RAM (up to 24 MiB) crammed onto an ISA board which, together with a special build

I'm reminded of the Mockingboard. It was pretty much just a 386 with a ton of RAM (up to 24 MiB) crammed onto an ISA board which, together with a special build of Golden Common Lisp, was marketed as a "Lisp machine on a budget" solution for PC users. This was back before Compaq started shipping PC compatibles with 386 CPUs, so it kinda made sense at the time?

zdw 4y ago
Do you have a link for this? The Mockingboard I heard of was this Apple II board that provided sound/voice synthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingboard
- bitwize 4y ago
  Apologies, the board I referred to was called the Hummingboard, not the Mockingboard. To confuse things, the name Hummingboard is used today by an ARM SBC manufacturer. There were multiple Trump Cards too; one was apparently an Amiga peripheral board.
- helf 4y ago
  Kinda hard to find info on if. Found a few thing a though: 386 Hummingboard by A.I. Architects Inc. (supposedly $7,000-$19,000 in 1986 w/16mb) https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102633505 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10263350... https://groups.google.com/g/net.lang.lisp/c/y-NxUbbwxH4?pli=1 https://groups.google.com/g/net.lang.lisp/c/y-NxUbbwxH4?pli=... https://books.google.com/books?id=EjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=386+Hummingboard+pc+world&source=bl&ots=sfkTtdmrcS&sig=ACfU3U1HyhmUbKhYrLFcAfxdCDZoRwfIZg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc8Nbzi9bvAhWbFTQIHbdPDUwQ6AEwAHoECAQQAw#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=EjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=P... https://books.google.com/books?id=izwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=386+Hummingboard+pc+world&source=bl&ots=ZO8q0-jm17&sig=ACfU3U2M8GjLDz-GiLSf_yGETzwBwxU32g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc8Nbzi9bvAhWbFTQIHbdPDUwQ6AEwAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=386%20Hummingboard%20pc%20world&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=izwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=P...

zdw 4y ago

Do you have a link for this? The Mockingboard I heard of was this Apple II board that provided sound/voice synthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingboard

bitwize 4y ago
Apologies, the board I referred to was called the Hummingboard, not the Mockingboard. To confuse things, the name Hummingboard is used today by an ARM SBC manufacturer. There were multiple Trump Cards too; one was apparently an Amiga peripheral board.
helf 4y ago
Kinda hard to find info on if. Found a few thing a though: 386 Hummingboard by A.I. Architects Inc. (supposedly $7,000-$19,000 in 1986 w/16mb) https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102633505 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10263350... https://groups.google.com/g/net.lang.lisp/c/y-NxUbbwxH4?pli=1 https://groups.google.com/g/net.lang.lisp/c/y-NxUbbwxH4?pli=... https://books.google.com/books?id=EjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=386+Hummingboard+pc+world&source=bl&ots=sfkTtdmrcS&sig=ACfU3U1HyhmUbKhYrLFcAfxdCDZoRwfIZg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc8Nbzi9bvAhWbFTQIHbdPDUwQ6AEwAHoECAQQAw#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=EjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=P... https://books.google.com/books?id=izwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=386+Hummingboard+pc+world&source=bl&ots=ZO8q0-jm17&sig=ACfU3U2M8GjLDz-GiLSf_yGETzwBwxU32g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc8Nbzi9bvAhWbFTQIHbdPDUwQ6AEwAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=386%20Hummingboard%20pc%20world&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=izwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=P...