Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!amdcad!mozart.amd.com!cayman!brett From: brett@cayman.amd.com (Brett Stewart) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's?? Message-ID: <1990Oct30.164155.10708@mozart.amd.com> Date: 30 Oct 90 16:41:55 GMT References: <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> Sender: usenet@mozart.amd.com (Usenet News) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Austin, Texas Lines: 17 In article pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: > >Incidentally, why not make a MIPS PC/AT compatible? I mean, a machine >that has an R3000 chip set instead of a 386 chip set, and is otherwise >identical (can use the same peripherals, boards, cages, etc...). I think >that 386 compatibility would easily be done with a 386 plug in board >(instead of doing the opposite, like Everex and others, who put with >good success an 88k or 29k onto a plug in board) and VP/ix or DOSmerge. Deskstation Technology has done exactly this with the Am29000. I havent seen their actual product, but I have seen a photo. Their phone number is 913-599-1900. Best Regards; Brett Stewart Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 1-512-462-5321 FAX 5900 E. Ben White Blvd MS561 1-512-462-4336 Telephone Austin, Texas 78741 USA brett@cayman.amd.com