Amiga with Intel inside... What horror is this?

[JimS]

I distinctly remember adverts for a third party 486 based bridge board. Does that ring any bells?

Golden Gate? Was that it?

Yes, that was it.

[JimS]

I was checking over an A2000 that I was using as a pedestal for
an Amiga 4000d and discovered via SysInfo that the machine had
a card inside called the A2386SX... The 386SX rang alarm bells
in my head and so I decided to open up the computer.

I had one of those in my 2000 for a while. Because of the limited ISA slots, it made multi-function ISA cards popular. I had a daughter card from some old PC that went into an ISA slot, and had 3 ISAs on one side and two on the other. You could use that to get two extra slots, but couldn't put the case on. Made for an ugly mess.... but with an emulator, you could run MAC, Amiga, and Windoze simultaneously.