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From: hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Has anyone run PCAD on a Bridgeboard A2000 combo?
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Date: 8 Sep 90 03:21:22 GMT
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It looks as though the Instrumentation Group here may be initiating the use of
a few 386 workstations with PCAD on them, and will abruptly cease to use the
Xerox Expert workstations.  (The Xerox support for Expert sems to be fading
severely these days).  The techs will work on a PC 386  that has both Capture
and Place & Route for PC.  The engineers are "invited" to submit stuff done on
Capture only PC's for P&R.  The thing on my desk is an upgraded A2000 with an
A2620 accelerator, 1 meg Agnus, A2090A + quantum 80 meg hard-disk and a good,
solid Mitsubish DiamondScan monitor with the Flicker Fixer - and I don't want
to suffer the unrighteous slings and arrows of a single-tasking 386 clone.
Perhaps the Bridge can get me out of this mess...  I hear PCAD uses a dongle,
and it goes on "the IBM serial port".  I don't know if that means the COMM1
port or the COMM2 port.  From what I've heard, if it's COMM2, I'm already dead,
as the Bridge somehow uses that to talk to the Amiga side of things - is this
True/False?  Thanks in advance for any information on PCAD on the Amiga!
							Howard Hull
							hull@ncar.ucar.edu