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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: IBM-PC Card to Sun VME bus adapter
Message-ID: <17830@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 88 16:38:41 GMT
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Sun makes a thing that they call the "Integrated Personal Computer."
You intall this beastie into a Sun VME slot and then run a suntools
program called pctool (can be run remotely from other suns) and it
makes a window that is the virtual IBM-PC screeen.  They give you a
cute little keyboard overlay to show you where the IBM keys are on your
Sun-3 keyboard.  The thing runs PC-NFS through a virtual ethernet to
the machine it is installed with.  The display will pretend to be
either a Color, Monochrome, or Hercules display.  The disk uses a
little piece of your main disk as it's C: and will supposedly also
print though your machine (but I haven't tried this).  The thing also
has jacks on it for a couple of floppy disk drives, etc.

It uses the Phoenix bios.  Flight Simulator doesn't seem to run on it
however (but some of our other games do).  It aslso comes with GW Basic.
It's a 286 system by the way.

The IPC is $1,495 (1,885 with 80287).  Two floppy drives (one 1.2M, one
360K) go for $995.  Required software is $495.

Ron