Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!intelhf!agora!billsey
From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Advice wanted - B2000, Pro-Board
Message-ID: <1990Oct22.013248.19750@agora.uucp>
Date: 22 Oct 90 01:32:48 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.074058.23651@warwick.ac.uk>
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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In article <1990Oct18.074058.23651@warwick.ac.uk> phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington) writes:
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:     I am currently thinking of upgrading from my A500 to a B2000. I have been
:told that the A2090A is the B2000 version of the A590. Is this correct?
:(the price seems _very_ high relatively). If not what is the A2091 like,
:opinions appreciated. Also is it possible to plug a PC-hard card in and mount
:an Amiga-DOS partition on that? (small PC-hard cards are _very_ cheap over
:here at the moment)

	The A2091 is the 2x00 equivalent of the A590. The A2090a is not being
made or sold anymore. The major different, from a users point of view, between
the 590 and 2091 is that the 590 allows an IDE drive in addition to the SCSI
drives, and the 2091 doesn't.
	If you have a Bridgeboard, you can add a PC hard card and partition at
least some of it for Amiga use. this is very slow, though, and you will not be
able to autoboot from it.

:     My other question concerns Pro-Board, a pcb design package. Has anyone
:with experience of using it, or others on the amiga, got any
:comments/advice on whether on not to buy it?

	Pro-board is easily the best PCB layour package available for the
Amiga. That doesn't mean it can compete with the higher end layout packages
for the PCs though. It's pretty easy to use, has few significant bugs and
runs on a 3000 under 2.0. :-) I've been pushing it's limits now for several
years and wish there were something better... The price is especially good
now that Creative Computers has their special deal going. We bought Pro-Net
and Pro-Board together for BEJED for $289 a month or so ago. (Now I can do
layout at work as well as at home. :-) )

:BTW- I would be getting the education package: B2000, XT-bridgeboard, 1084S.
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