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
