Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:7880 comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware:606 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!u39648 Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Date: Sunday, 21 Apr 1991 13:46:51 CDT From: From The Mind Of Message-ID: <91111.134651U39648@uicvm.uic.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware Subject: Re: info needed on SOTA 386SX upgrade board References: <1991Apr17.165958.6023@cc.helsinki.fi> <91107.194110U39648@uicvm.uic.edu> <1991Apr19.235734.14785@rodan.acs.syr.edu> > I can only hope that intel has a inboard for small microchannel systems. >Personally, I'm hoping for a 25 MHZ inboard Microchannel card from INTEL.... Well, Intel has no expressed interest in such a product, and an IBM Business Partner has been making such a product for quite some time now: Aox International 486 Totten Pond Road Waltham, MA 02154 Phone: 1-617-890-4402 / 1-800-232-1269 FAX: 1-617-890-8445 The product is called the Aox MicroMASTER. There is an Aox MicroMASTER 386 in 20MHz and 25MHz that is a 16-bit bus-mastering Micro Channel adapter, and an Aox MicroMASTER 386 33MHz and an Aox MicroMASTER 486 25MHz that are bus- mastering 32-bit Micro Channel adapters that also work in 16-bit slots. The 386 boards offer 387 support, and they all support up to 8M of 32-bit memory on the adapter, in addition to any system memory already installed. The 20/25MHz versions have a 32K static RAM cache. (Don't know how big the 386-33 or 485-25 is...) Ever see an IBM show where they've show a "super server" with two 486s? It was a prototype IBM PS/2 95 XP with an Aox MicroMASTER 486 installed. There's some software that was just announced called OS/Master for these cards that allow your original processor to run one operating system, and the 386/486 on the MicroMASTER to run another. I have not seen this done yet. It may be noted that I'm a happy Aox customer, but I'm not affiliated with them in any other way. - Darius ========================================================================= BITNET: U39648@UICVM | "I'd rather laugh with the sinners Internet: u39648@uicvm.uic.edu | than cry with the saints, ====================================| the sinners are much more fun, "Don't set fire to strangers." | and only the good die young." - Mr. Zarniwoop | - Billy Joel