raymund@sci.UUCP (Raymund Galvin) (12/15/85)
I've been using the "Accelerator PC" made by Titan Technologies for
about a month now. It works great. This plug-in card contains a
9.54 Mhz 8086 cpu and room for 640K of fast ram. Titan also supplies
a ram disk, print spooler, and fast rom utilities with the board.
I haven't used the ram disk or print spooler, but I have found the
fast rom to work well. When using the fast rom option, the rom on
the pc's motherboard is copied into ram on the Titan board. Fast rom
speeds up anything that executes code normally stored in the roms.
The few benchmarks I've tried have shown the "Accelerator PC"
to be about as fast as an IBM AT (sometimes a little faster - sometimes
a little slower). Byte magazine had a recent special issue devoted to
the IBM PC/AT. In that issue there is an article comparing an un-named
accelerator card (9.54 Mhz 8086) against the PC and AT. That article
gives some pretty good reasons for buying an accelerator card.
I purchased the Titan card for $500 at a large retail computer
store. It came with 128K of ram installed. It took less than half
an hour to install the board into an IBM PC and get it running.
The manual was above average (that is - it contained no errors that
prevented me from installing the card).
Now for a question. Does anybody know where I can get a 10 Mhz
NEC V30 ? I believe I read an article in a magazine that mentioned
the existence of 10 Mhz V30s. Any help in locating a 10 Mhz V30
would be greatly appreciated.
- Ray Galvin
DISCLAIMER:
No, I don't work for Titan. Any views expressed above are jibberish,
and it is purely coincidence if they mean anything to anybody.
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