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From: huebner@aero.aero.org (Robert E. Huebner)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS emulation (how about an AT card for $398?)
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Date: 15 Nov 90 16:31:46 GMT
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In article <1990Nov15.045613.4486@ucselx.sdsu.edu>,
coxc0011@ucselx.sdsu.edu (David Tse) writes:
|> 
|> 	I saw an ad on AmigaWorld recent issue about this ATonce: an 80286
|> on a daughterboard w/ a custom gate array to make up most chips of a 286
|> motherboard, and a 68000; a very small card which can be pluged into the
|> 68000 socket in a A500 (or with a cable, to a A2000 slot, I didn't
understand
|> that one).
|> 	It works as a task on AmigaDOS, requires 1MB, and uses the serial,
|> parallel port, mouse (as MicroSoft mouse), keyboard, floppy drive (5.25 and
|> 3.5), and harddrive (Pulsar XT board for A500 doesn't support HD).
|> 	Screen emulation includes Herculus, CGA, Toshiba 3100 (?), and some
|> odd one.  
|> 	list price is $398 (pretty good, isn't it :-)
|> 	Clock speed is 7.2Mhz.

I saw this one too, so I'd like to add two observations:

1) In the ad, the screen shot shows Windows 3.0 (I assume its 3.0, I'm
   not a Messy-Dos victim).  The bottom of the ad states "MS-DOS and 
   Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.".  However, there is no mention
   of Windows in the ad copy.  This leads me to believe that either a) someone
   goofed or b) they found a last minute problem with the unit that forced 
   them to pull their claim of Windows compatability
2) Also, by reading the ad literally, it sounds as if any memory beyond 
   720K becomes a RAM disk.  Don't users get the option of using an extended
   memory manager to access this stuff?

Overall, the description makes it sounds like a step up from the previous
Pulsar board, since Harddrive support is essential for any serious PC use.

There is a (slightly) longer and (perhaps) less biased mention of this product
in the November issue of AUI (Amiga User Intn'l).

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Robert Huebner		huebner@aerospace.aero.org
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