From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 31 12:51:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15787 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:51:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15780 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA03206; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 14:51:37 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 14:51:37 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Kris Kirby Cc: Al Stodolski , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux emulation Message-ID: <19981031145137.D2302@emsphone.com> References: <19981031133014.A2302@emsphone.com> <363B7451.988811F4@airnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.3i In-Reply-To: <363B7451.988811F4@airnet.net>; from "Kris Kirby" on Sat Oct 31 14:34:25 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 31), Kris Kirby said: > It appears they found a new and faster way to do this: put a PC in a > Mac. They are now making accelerator cards which have PC-style > processors on them to do the work. You can imagine my suprise at > seeing a PowerPC Mac with Windows 95(tm) running on it. The owner > explained that a 486DX/100 was doing the job of a PC, while MacOS was > (appearently) still running on the PowerPC CPU. Well, not necessarily a new way.. beside me I have an Amiga 2000 with a Bridgeboard in it; a 286 on a card, complete with IDE, floppy, and video controllers, and three ISA slots. The copyright on the board reads 1987. I seem to recall the availability of other platform-on-a card setups, too. I've seen sunos/sparc running on a card in a PC, and I've seen ads for an rs6000 running S/390 on a card too. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message