Re: PCI coprocessors

[Andre Tomt]

Tonnerre wrote:
> Salut,
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 12:01:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > I have long dreamed of being able to add a PCI card to my x86 system, a 
> > PCI card containing a processor (of any type), RAM, and an ethernet 
> > interface.  I would use this for routing, or iSCSI, or network offload...
>
>
> Such as  the i386 co-computer  card for older Macintosh  computers? (I
> can't remember what it was called.)

I've recently seen several ia32 PCI boards, with network, cpu, ram, etc. 
that works in modern PC's. Can't recall any names just now though. Not 
sure if they had any communication with the host over PCI either.
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