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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Who will buy the NeXT
Message-ID: <9134@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 22 Dec 89 06:35:40 GMT
References: <1989Dec7.101853.7547@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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in article <1989Dec7.101853.7547@agate.berkeley.edu>, izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) says:
> Keywords: NeXT

>>In article <21632@ut-emx.UUCP> kdp9565@walt.cc.utexas.edu 
>>(Keith D. Perkins) writes:

> Amiga tried to put PC bus into their boxes.  Does anybody actually 
> have Intel processor board in their Amiga?  

Actually, we succeeded.  There are two different PC cards that work in
Amigas, one XT compatible, one AT compatible.  They aren't the fastest
PC-Clone around, but they work good, run most everything, and show up
in a window on your Amiga's screen.  I use one at work for the one 
program I use regularly that I can't get for the Amiga yet, a good
PAL compiler.  Believe it or not, a PC clone makes a good PAL programmer.
Some other folks use them, which some interface software, to drive
PC-bus Truevision Targa boards from Amiga applications.  It's not like
_every_ A2000/A2500 owner buys one of these things, but they have been
more successful than Commodore expected.

And the mere existence of the board lets you check the "PC compatible"
box on the P.O., which some company bean counters require. 

> Izumi Ohzawa
> izumi@violet.berkeley.edu
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