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From: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 486 PC in an Amiga
Message-ID: <20813@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 21 Apr 91 02:56:31 GMT
References: <337@toylnd.UUCP>
Reply-To: drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <337@toylnd.UUCP> dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht) writes:
>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?

this and similar products that are designed to drive a passive xt or at
backplane should work in the 2000 or 3000's xt/at slots.  no guarantees,
of course.

>David Albrecht

  --Scotty
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