Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Intel's Inboard 386 PC in an Amiga 2000?
Message-ID: <3671@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 14:43:34 GMT
References: <468@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 21
Keywords: 2000 386 xenix intel

In article <468@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu () writes:
> I saw an advertisement in Computer Shopper for a board from Intel which
> turns an XT into a 386 based machine.  It was called an Inboard 386 PC
> and the price was around $780.  What are the chances of this working
> on a 2000 with an XT BridgeBoard?  What are the chances of this combination
> running Xenix/386?

*Some* speedup boards will work with the bridgecard.  The key issue isn't
so much the bridgecard, rather it's whether or not a given speedup card
will work with the Faraday PC clone chipset.  "Real" IBM PC systems implement
DMA in a funny way, the Faraday chips do something else (like use the CPU
bus request I'm told).  Boards that take advanatage of the way the IBM PC
implementation works will fail in Faraday based clones, including the
bridgecard...  There may, of course be other reasons why a given card may
not work, however the above is a global make/break issue.


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