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From: dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Topas (and now DGS)
Message-ID: <754@npiatl.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 90 15:45:35 GMT
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bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury) writes:

>>From what I understand (and from the literature for DGS) it can operate in a
>286 platform.  Of course you are talking major slow downs and the need for an
>Accelerator but it will still run on a 286 if you want to use it as a
>platform.

Yes DGS will run on a 286 based system with either a transputer or a
680?? co-processor board.  None of the utilities use 386 opcodes.  The pc
runs the utilities and is the host for the coprocessor.  DGS has a 386
version of the [23]build and render.

The 286 will only slow down file i/o and the dos based utilities.  The builders
and render will not slow down (except for i/o).

Dwight Kelly
Network Publications, Inc.