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From: mgh1@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (matthew.g.hetman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga 2000 and XT Bridgeboard Use
Message-ID: <3741@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 90 19:57:33 GMT
References: <21815@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <40862@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
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In article <40862@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, gutierre@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Gutierrez) writes:
> jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
> I am also considering a purchase of the bridgeboard. One important
> question is can it use an Intel 386/PC accelerator board. I think I
> remember somebody saying it did not like the Intel board, but the
> Sota 386 (maybe 286) board worked fine.
> 

Yes, you can add the SOTA 386sx board and no the Intel 386/PC will not work.
It works only in certain Tandy machines as well as the real IBM XT. It 
requires you to strip your memory down to 256k and I tried that by removing
the soldered chips but the board failed to work and messed up my GVP
HD. The SOTA worked very nicely and made the XT Bridgeboard really fly. I
have sinced upgraded to the AT Bridgeboard but my old bench marks showed the
SOTA 386 XT version to be quicker.

 
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