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Back in the day there were so called "sidecars" for the Amiga. They had an x86, probably 80268, and were used to run PC software on the Amiga.
by weinzierl 3y ago
Back in the day there were so called "sidecars" for the Amiga. They had an x86, probably 80268, and were used to run PC software on the Amiga.
- nathan_douglas 3y agoSun had a similar thing! >According to Sun documentation the "... coprocessor card is not just PC-compatible, it is an actual PC that is constructed from real PC components and follows the de facto and emerging PC hardware design standards." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunPCi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunPCi
- sillywalk 3y agoIBM had(has?) something like this for their AS/400/iSeries. The Integrated File Server, then Integrated Xseries Adapter A card with a mini X86 Server inside, running Netware, OS/2 or Windows NT, that could use the AS/400's storage and peripherals. https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/The_Integrated_PC_Servers https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/The_Integrated_PC_Servers
- tssva 3y agoFor a few years my work computer was a Sun Ultra 5 with a SunPCi card in it to handle email and office automation tasks. Both Solaris and Windows ran extremely slow on the system. It was truly a horrible thing.
- trelane 3y agoI was a student Unix systems administrator back then. We had ultrasparc workstations, with a SunPCi card. I believe a number of us hooked up a monitor to the VGA connector on it, and used x2vnc to have a continuous virtual screen. https://fredrik.hubbe.net/x2vnc.html https://fredrik.hubbe.net/x2vnc.html
- yencabulator 3y agoNot at all surprising, considering that the earlier Commodore C-128 had both a MOS 8502 chip and a Zilog Z80 chip -- latter was purely for a separate CP/M boot environment, it never ran concurrently.