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Re:How Many Computers Are in Your Computer? (2021) by duskwuff on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:18PM (#34057087)
Some later Macintosh systems also had a PC Card -- an expansion card with an x86 CPU and chipset on it. The x86 system could (somehow!) use the RAM and storage of the host computer, and took over the system's video output with a weird adapter cable.
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Re:How Many Computers Are in Your Computer? (2021) by vidarh on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:19PM (#34059267)
That's similar to the Bridgeboards for the Amiga 2000[1], with the added bit that the A2000 had two buses so you can see the board has connectors for both the Zorro bus on the Amiga and an ISA bus for the "PC side". For the Amiga 1000 there was also the "Sidecar"[2]

[1] https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=328

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Sidecar

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