PPC PCI cards on x86

Philip Cummins mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Sat, 6 Jul 2002 12:31:52 +0800 (WST)


Hello,

> The Sonnet card to which you refer is, I believe, not a PCI card, but a 
> custom Apple direct CPU bus. This bus is different depending upon which 
> model the card is designed to upgrade... and definetly would not be able 
> to be plugged in to a PC.

The Crescendo/7200 is a PCI card, so you could probably hack it to work as 
a PPC with RAM on a PCI card. However, Microcode Solutions 
(www.microcode-solutions.com) is developing just such a card, and 
apparently will support MacOS X on an Intel box as well as 3rd party 
developers which would be a better bet.

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