21 Apr
2016
21 Apr
'16
2:13 p.m.
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
Let?s not also forget the various 370 and 390
co-processor boards that
could be put into PC?s at various times to allow one to turn the PC into a
small mainframe capable of running mainframe software (including the OS).
I can't forget because I never knew that! I'm not always that interested in
IBM 3x0 systems, but that's a really cool concept. I'm guessing they were
microchannel boards that plugged into the IBM PS/2 line ? I can't believe
IBM would have let you run them on any old PC (given the clone wars at the
time). That blows my mind.
I always thought it'd be cool to be able to extend a standard SGI system
with a compute brick from an Origin. In some ways you could use a craylink
setup to get close, but nothing as cool as an add-in board for a whole
'nother platform.
-Swift