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From: lbrown@apctrc.UUCP (Lawrence H. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: IBM-PC Card to Sun VME bus adapter
Summary: More talk about Sun IPC Board
Keywords: IPC speed games FSII spam
Message-ID: <435@apctrc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 00:10:20 GMT
References: <1564@macadam.munsell.UUCP> <17830@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: lbrown@apctrc.UUCP (Lawrence H. Brown)
Organization: System Administrator, Drilling Resources Development
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In article <17830@topaz.rutgers.edu::: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
:::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

All that is pretty acurate, except Flight Simulator DOES run, at least it
does on our IPC board.  Programs blazedly fast.  There is no sound 
capability except the beep from the Sun, and you can't even get 
a mono tune.  Another thing is that a lot of the PD games that run normally 
on a PC/XT run way way way too fast on this machine.  Anyone on our network can access the IPC from our server, one at a time.  It will even ask you if
you want to wait for your turn if its currently being used. Printer re-
direction of LPT1: to the line printer and we send LPT2: to the Lazerprinter.
It is a great way of transfering files and data.  We haven't had a bit of
trouble either from the floppy drives or the board.

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	Lawrence H. Brown
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