Quoting <20010316142157.C4379 at antefacto.com>
by "John P . Looney" <john at antefacto.com>:
> Later on, you could buy a PowerPC chip on a card, and have it run your
> applications (compiled for PowerPC) while your OS ran on the 680x0 chip.
I seem to remember there being a Z80 coprocessor for the BBC Micro too
8)
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