Sun PCi
SunPCi is a series of single-board computers with a connector that effectively allows a PC motherboard to be fitted in Sun Microsystems SPARC-based workstations based on the Peripheral Component Interconnect, PCI architecture adding the capability for the workstation to act as a 'IBM PC compatible' computer. The Sun PCi cards included an x86 processor, RAM, expansion ports, and an onboard graphics controller, allowing a complete Wintel operating system, operating environment on a Solaris (operating system), Solaris system. The SunPCi software running on Solaris emulates the disk drives that contain the PC filesystem. The PC software running on the embedded hardware is displayed in an X Window System, X window on the host desktop; there is also a connector on the edge of the board that can optionally be used to connect a PC monitor. History The product arose from the issue of people who were working on a Unix workstation that was typically not Intel-based being sent a file from a Mi ...
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