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by rbanffy 929 days ago
> Some C64 software co-opted the floppy drive’s 6502 as a coprocessor.

In that sense, the 8-bit Commodores were a bit like mainframes - one could load a data transform program to run on the floppy drive and run it without bothering the host. I believe it goes a bit further than the Atari family in that.