6 Sep
2007
6 Sep
'07
4:26 p.m.
Message: 24
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:24:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Ancient 8086/80286 unixes?
What was the purpose of offloading in this context?
Simply acceleration? No, I can't think of any "whole
puters" that could get plugged into a pc or at either,
just thought I'd ask. But keep in mind you don't
really need a distinct k/b and screen to do that.
Years later they were quite common. I think it was
Orange Micro or AST that came out w/286 Nubus cards
for the early Nubus equipped Macs. I never bothered to
get mine working, but I'm guessing the environment ran
in a window on the Mac desktop.
Nevertheless I think it would be very kewell to plug
a whole 'nother puter into something vintij. Very kewell.
This was discussed in another thread a little while ago.
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/1997-November/092425.html
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