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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 80386 BridgeBoard
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Date: 23 Aug 90 16:42:02 GMT
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In article <13900@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <38229@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU
>>Rumour has it that the '286 don't work too swell in the A3000.  
>There may have been some software issues with the Bridge Cards, the A3000, and
>perhaps 2.0.  But I've used them, they work good.

Ah well, that's what happens when one believes rumours...

 
>>Also note, there really is no point in having a 32 bit computer inside a 32 
>>bit computer talking through a 16 bit bus.  
>
>That's silly.  PClones always talk to their disk, keyboard, and video display
>via an 8 or 16 bit bus.

Which is one of the many reasons why "Amiga does it better." :)
[Of course, we do still have that 16bit video bus.. sigh  {note video bus !=
							   '030 access to CHIP}]

Also, when it's about $1700 on the line, this sort of things becomes an
important factor...

>>For VGA, one really wants the fastest transfer possible -- and that's ZorroIII
>...  But there are certainly more Zorro II
>machines out there, so they would have to consider that aspect as well.

Yeah, I understand that, but from what I've been hearing there will be quite
an extensive A3000 installed base rather soon, and as these sorts of things
take some time to design...  Oh well, anyway, one can always dream :)

David Navas                                   navas@sim.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me