[rescue] IBM on ebay

[dave at cca.org]

vance at ikickass.org writes:

>On Mon, 13 May 2002 dave at cca.org wrote:

>> So you could put a 390 CPU in an RS/6000, and use the POWER CPU as
>> an IO processor for the 390... Deja Vu!

>You can even offload the I/O to emulated channel processors running on
>i960's on separate cards.

I'm guessing those are the stock high-end RS/6000 i960-based boards?
Or were they special, just for this?

(I just like the historic irony of POWER returning to its IO 
processor ancestry.)

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