Re: Ultra 5: Unidentified DEC PCI board

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 11/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:19:07 +0100

Paul S. Brown wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> writes:
>>
>>> There are such products from other manufacturers and even for other
>>> slots than PCI too. And Sun is far from the first one to make such.
>> I knew about Apple's PowerPC extension CPU boards which one could plug
>> in to upgrade m68k-based machines like the Quadra but that's about it.
>>
>> Do you have pointers to other similar ``weirdnesses''?
>
> The old Amiga 2000s and 3000s had the option of "XT Bridgeboards" or "AT
> Bridgeboards" which had either an 8088 or a 80286 on them.

There was 486 boards too, working on all machines with a Zorro expansion slot
(A1000, A2000, A3000, A4000, A1200 with Zorro-expansion).

 //Aho