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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

  3. Re:cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, like some sort of... Windowing... system... Using "windows", we could quickly and easily switch between two (OR MORE??) different programs all together! Maybe by pressing special key combonations, too! (That way we wouldn't have to modify our keyboards, too.) Like, ALT-TAB on Windows... maybe COMMAND-TAB on Mac. That sure would fool them! Now if only we could get some techy-type person to make and mass market this! (Or are we just dreaming here??)

  4. PC/MAC Machine by rminear · · Score: 5, Informative

    TechTV/The Screen Savers did this about a month or two ago. They built a clone mac machine, and then added the PC Parts and processor to it. http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/supergeek/story /0,24330,3413988,00.html

  5. sweet! by sporty · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a computer and fridge, with water and ice dispenser! Now if only it had a crisper :)

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  6. MacCharlie by Shayde · · Score: 5, Informative

    The first real incarnation of this was a weird little thing called a MacCharlie. It took what was then the only form factor of the Mac (what I believe folks today call a 128KE) and added a pair of 5 1/4" floppy drives, a system board, and the keyboard extension needed for the F1-F10 keys and the numeric keypad.

    Here's a decent webpage about it. It was manufactured by Dayna, and actually was sort of cute.

    I believe it was limited to 80x24 text applications (since in that day, the Monochrome Graphics Adapter was actually an expansion, and if you were -really- inventive, you could get (gasp) a CGA card! Woo! :)

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