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From: dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Bridge card accelerator
Message-ID: <156@kesmai.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 88 21:17:50 GMT
Organization: Kesmai Corporation, Charlottesville, VA
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The February 29 issue of InfoWorld had an interesting byline for
a 80386 speed up board for IBM PC-compatible 8086, 8088, and 80286
based computers from Applied Reasoning Corp. to begin shipping
in several weeks.  Called PC-Elevator 386 (Version 2) it allows
up to 13 meg of ram on board.  Lists at $1795.  The interesting
thing is that specifically mentioned in the article is that
it can be used to provide 80386 power to the Amiga 2000 on
either the 8088 or 80286 bridgeboards.  As the 80286 bridgeboard
isn't even out yet that particular claim may be somewhat suspect.
While this does nothing to speed up the display,
having a 386 running in a window under Amigados wouldn't
be too shoddy.  Boy, imagine a system with the Commodore 68020
board speeding up the Amiga side, a 80386 accelerated bridgeboard
running a 386 Unix on the PC side.  Add in flickerfixer and a
multisync montior.  Zowie! Batman.

David Albrecht