On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at mail.msu.edu> wrote:
A random thought popped into my head this evening, and
having nothing better
to do (well, ok, I have quite a few things better to do to be honest) I
decided to go with the impulse.
The idea? ?I have a number of nubus Mac coprocessors and accelerators,
amongst them:
- An Orange386 PC coprocessor (16Mhz 80386, 4MB ram, CGA graphics)
- A Radius Rocket Stage II (Basically a Quadra on a 12" nubus card, complete
with 40Mhz CPU and 32mb of RAM)
- A Symbolics MacIvory III (The coolest coprocessor ever -- a lisp machine
on a card!)
Could I run these all at the same time in my trusty Macintosh IIfx?
The answer: Yes. (warning, 1600x1200 image):
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/random/5OS.png
That's a 40Mhz 68030 IIfx running System 7.6.1, the Radius Rocket running
System 7.1, the Orange386 running DOS 5.0, the MacIvory running Genera 8.3,
and just for good measure the IIfx is also running Tenon's MachTEN (BSD 4.3
running as a Mac OS process).
I didn't leave it running like that for very long, as it's probably more
than a bit stressful on the poor IIfx's power supply. ?But I just had to try
it, thought you guys might get a kick out of it...
*Pauses for a minute of silent admiration*
I am envious of your toybox. Very. :?)
All you have to do now is find a way to add A/UX onto that. ;?)
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