PPC PCI cards on x86

Ben Stanley mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Sat, 06 Jul 2002 15:40:57 +1000


So you are referring to 
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/crescendo_7200.html
This looks quite an interesting proposition then.

The Microcode Solutions site just says that a page will come soon - no 
details yet.

Ben.

Philip Cummins wrote:

>Hello,
>
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>>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.
>
>PC
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