PPC PCI cards on x86

[Philip Cummins]

Hello,

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

Yes, it does seem pretty interesting, it would be something interesting to 
try out since it is pretty cheap to get the low end models. The only issue 
is that it uses 70 ns DIMMs onboard, these may be slowing it down a bit, 
I'm all for PC100+ RAM these days.

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

Yes, it's been like that for a while now since some legal issues earlier 
on. From memory, it was a IBM 750FX PPC coupled to an integrated PCI 
Memory Bridge Controller and 1 or 2 SO-DIMM slots on a single PCI card. We 
should expect to see them sometime this year; when, I'm not sure. This is 
a hardware solution dedicated for running a Mac emulator on a PC, however 
if Microcode releases a SDK this would be of benefit to people using the 
hardware for other purposes (multiprocessing anyone?)

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