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From: phil@osiris.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.68k,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: MS/DOS, PC/DOS on Motorola 68K based PC
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Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 09:18:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 25 09:18:20 1986
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Summary: Turnabout is fair play?

Regarding a 286 coprocessor board for a "real" (68k-based) box:  I
find this concept ironically fascinating in light of the recent (~
3 months or so ago) discussion on 68k or 32k coprocessor boards for
ATs.  I remarked then that putting a 68k or 32k board with its own
memory management, a meg or so of memory, and SysV into an AT as a
"slave processor" was a funny notion (in more ways than one).  Now
we've got 286 "slave processor" boards for 68k systems, which I
feel is getting things in the right order for a change.

The point about giving PC-dazzled decision makers a good reason to
buy a good box instead of a PC clone is quite valid.  I know of
several people who would never consider a machine that couldn't run
PCFile (fortunately *I* don't work for them, but my poor saintly
grey-haired mother [honest, she is!] has gone through a lot of
abuse because her office had to be automated with PC clones).

Look at it this way: when those managers gets tired of beating
their heads against 123, they may just try out the *main* side of
the box and get spoiled...


Phil Kos			  ...!decvax!decuac
The Johns Hopkins Hospital                         > !aplcen!osiris!phil
Baltimore, MD			...!allegra!umcp-cs

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