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From: andre@gtss.UUCP (Andre Frech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bridge card accelerator
Message-ID: <205@gtss.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 19:39:58 GMT
References: <156@kesmai.COM>
Organization: Georgia Tech Surface Studies, Atlanta, GA
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In article <156@kesmai.COM>, dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht) writes:

> 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.  [...]

A few minor additions.  I use the PC-Elevator with the 80387 option
and 1 meg of ram.  Don't know for sure, but I believe that this
product is available now.  Since the Elevator does not interfere with 
existing processors, it is (sort of) intuitive that it should have no
problem with the 80286 bridgeboard.  Speculation. 

The Elevator runs at 16 MHz, and has 100 nsec RAM with no wait states.
MIPS (hah) is 3.4, while the Norton Index is 18.7.  Really seemed to 
perk up my 2000...only slow stuff are screen and disk I/O, but you can
still see a heck of an improvement, especially graphics.

Currently their software revision is V1.1, and it allows the use of the
jdisk utilities and 2088 memory access.  For more information, contact
Applied Reasoning at 86A Sherman St., Cambridge, MA 02140 617-492-0700.

An article on their product appears in _PC_Magazine_, October 27, 1987.

Oh, BTW, I have no interest financially in their product or company,
other than as a satisfied [ab]user.