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by pellias 1807 days ago
Not gonna lie, i thought something happened to the Apple Sidecar
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Sidecar pattern in k8s here ;)
There was also an Amiga Sidecar released in 1986 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Sidecar
That's fascinating. How did the software work with that? Were they native apps flagged to run on the different processor, or was DOS booted on a screen (can't remember what they were called in workbench now) and programs run from there?
I never had one but my guess is you'd boot DOS on the x86 part and everything except for the screen is separated with no ambiguity where to run what code.