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From: dwi@manta.NOSC.MIL (Steve Stamper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Who will buy the NeXT
Message-ID: <981@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 22 Dec 89 18:27:30 GMT
References: <1989Dec7.101853.7547@agate.berkeley.edu> <9134@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: dwi@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (Roger Uzun)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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[.. about Amiga and XT Card  ..]
One important aspect to the Amiga Bridgeboard card, it provides 
near 100% PC-XT/AT HARDWARE compatibility as well.  Allowing
companies/users to purchase inexpensive PC hardware for their
systems.  Of course you need the bridgeboard to do this and it
works from the "PC Side" of things, but for some nice EPROM and
single chip computer (8085 and such) programming tools it has
worked out nicely, in addition there are some inexpensive
PC BUS voice mail systems, and probably a lot of other things
that are nice to tie into.  So unlike the Mac II cards, the Amiga
Bridgeboard solution brings Software & hardware compatibility
to the 680X0 world, and it works fine.
-Roger