Hah! That is awesome!
Lisp machine on a card was the icing on the cake :)
/P
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:16:25AM -0800, Josh Dersch 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...
- Josh