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New Dual System PC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cram-more-in-the-box dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ExtremeMhz.com has released an article on how they designed and built a PC containing dual systems. One system is a supercooled Intel and the other is a water chilled AMD. This PC features Dual SCSI storage subsytems also. Looks like some crazy stuff." Now if only they could put a mac and a PC in one case ;)

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  1. Mac in a dual case. by SN74S181 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, there have been PC cards for Macintosh machines for a long, long time, so I guess you can cram an expensive 'PC' (we'll call it 'an IBM' for the old time Mac Zealots) in a Mac case.

    It's possible because the PC is an open architecture.

    I can imagine the screaming and sputtering and legal injunctions that would stream out of Steve Job's office, though, if someone tried to implement and market a PowerMac on a PCI card that could be plugged into a PC. It's closed hardware, you see.

    1. Re:Mac in a dual case. by mithras+the+prophet · · Score: 5, Interesting

      You can buy this PowerPC on a card.

      Combine it with Mac-On-Linux, and you can run OS X Jaguar on your PC.

      Or so I imagine - I certainly haven't tried it.

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  2. Siamese did this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If I'm not mistaken, there was a range of computers built by (or called) Siamese. They had amiga, atari, mac and PC, and any combination of many others all in the one system, all used through the one monitor and keyboard. I'm not sure about sharing drives however