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.