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From: dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 486 PC in an Amiga
Message-ID: <337@toylnd.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 91 05:48:34 GMT
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Was just looking at a System Integrators Magazine and seeing a rather
interesting product made me want to pose a question to the Commodore
hardware types.  The product in particular which I saw was a 25Mhz
486 with up to 32M of RAM, a parallel port, a serial port, IDE port,
SCSI port, a floppy port, PS/2 keyboard port, and a PS/2 mouse port.
All of this was located on one AT card.  Mind you the board probably
costs a fortune but, nevertheless given my limited understanding
of the PC bus inside the 2000/3000 I figured the board probably should 
work and it would give you a high powered PC and an Amiga all in one box.
Even has a spot on board for a ROM drive.
Of course, it wouldn't have the bridge board's capability to communicate
to the Amiga side and you would probably want to use a VGA card and a switch
box to flip between the Amiga display and the PC display.  Also, you
would need to install a floppy and hard drive somewhere for the PC
to use.  Still, it is an interesting idea.  Any reason it wouldn't work?

David Albrecht