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From: rick@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Rick Spanbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Accessing PC cards from Amiga (also, NFS)?
Keywords: BridgeBoard, PC, Amiga, Ethernet, NFS, Ameristar
Message-ID: <2052@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 89 16:47:29 GMT
References: <2482@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <86118@sun.uucp> <228@becker.UUCP>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <228@becker.UUCP>, bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
> In article <86118@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
> >In article <2482@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> (Michael A. Garvin) writes:

> 	hit using the PC-NFS  due to the slowness  of the
> 	8088 cpu doing the data transfers -  but the cost
> 	of the Ameristar board is *very* high compared to
> 	the equivalent  PC-based products.  The future is

	Ahem.  PC-NFS from Sun is US$395 quantity one.  Probably even
	more in Canada.  Sun charges ~US$399 for an ethernet board, again
	quantity one.  We charge $899, Q1 for our integrated ethernet/nfs/
	tcp/ip product.  So the PC solution is ~$800 -vs- native Amiga
	at $899.  A difference of $99 simple does not strike me as
	"*very* high compared to the equivalent...".  And of course
	the PC based $800 solution also requires the bridge card in order
	to be used on the Amiga.  So the systems cost is less for our
	hw/sw package.  If the complaint is actually that the generic PC
	equivalent HW or software items costs less than an Amiga widget,
	understand that there are millions of PC/PC clones, while there
	are perhaps 1 million or so Amiga.  Less volume => higher cost.


>    _  _/\	Bruce Becker	Toronto, Ont.
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					Rick Spanbauer
					Ameristar