[comp.sys.amiga] IBM Bridgeboard

acm131@eric.ccs.northeastern.edu (Craig Scott Lennox) (11/21/89)

This is for anyone who's used the Bridge-board that lets Amy run
PC-compatible software.  I tried to suggest it as a much more
desirable alternative to a '386-based PC with a VGA card running OS/2,
because the Amy already has blow-em-away graphics, and multi-tasks more
efficiently than OS/2 ever will, and it will run all their favourite
Messy-DOS software into the bargain.

The response I got was that the Bridge-board was far too slow (only
8 MHz) to be a reasonable alternative, and for $1200, plus the cost
of the Amiga, it just wasn't worth it.  Is this true?  Are they perhaps
just talking about the 8088 Bridge-board, and there are '286 and maybe
even '386 boards out there which will do better?

I'd like a Reality Check from people out there who've used the Bridge-
board, before I accept this suspicious claim.


					Thanks,

					Craig.

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