dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht) (03/02/88)
The February 29 issue of InfoWorld had an interesting byline for a 80386 speed up board for IBM PC-compatible 8086, 8088, and 80286 based computers from Applied Reasoning Corp. to begin shipping in several weeks. Called PC-Elevator 386 (Version 2) it allows up to 13 meg of ram on board. Lists at $1795. The interesting thing is that specifically mentioned in the article is that it can be used to provide 80386 power to the Amiga 2000 on either the 8088 or 80286 bridgeboards. As the 80286 bridgeboard isn't even out yet that particular claim may be somewhat suspect. While this does nothing to speed up the display, having a 386 running in a window under Amigados wouldn't be too shoddy. Boy, imagine a system with the Commodore 68020 board speeding up the Amiga side, a 80386 accelerated bridgeboard running a 386 Unix on the PC side. Add in flickerfixer and a multisync montior. Zowie! Batman. David Albrecht
bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS) (03/08/88)
In article <156@kesmai.COM> dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht) writes: >The February 29 issue of InfoWorld had an interesting byline for >a 80386 speed up board for IBM PC-compatible 8086, 8088, and 80286 >based computers from Applied Reasoning Corp. to begin shipping >in several weeks. Called PC-Elevator 386 (Version 2) it allows >up to 13 meg of ram on board. Lists at $1795. The interesting >thing is that specifically mentioned in the article is that >it can be used to provide 80386 power to the Amiga 2000 on I have been using one the these boards on my bridgeboard for about 2 months now. Benchmarks are roughly 7 to 9 times faster then an xt. Currently I am working with Applied Reasoning to add greater flexability and compatability to the board when used with the 2088. FAST! BK -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bill Koester (CATS) >>Commodore Amiga Technical Support<< Commodore International Ltd. UUCP {allegra|burdvax|rutgers|ihnp4}!cbmvax!bill PHONE (215) 431-9355 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Pleese desrigard eny spealing airors!!!!!!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
andre@gtss.UUCP (Andre Frech) (03/09/88)
In article <156@kesmai.COM>, dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht) writes: > The February 29 issue of InfoWorld had an interesting byline for > a 80386 speed up board for IBM PC-compatible 8086, 8088, and 80286 > based computers from Applied Reasoning Corp. to begin shipping > in several weeks. Called PC-Elevator 386 (Version 2) it allows > up to 13 meg of ram on board. Lists at $1795. The interesting > thing is that specifically mentioned in the article is that > it can be used to provide 80386 power to the Amiga 2000 on > either the 8088 or 80286 bridgeboards. [...] A few minor additions. I use the PC-Elevator with the 80387 option and 1 meg of ram. Don't know for sure, but I believe that this product is available now. Since the Elevator does not interfere with existing processors, it is (sort of) intuitive that it should have no problem with the 80286 bridgeboard. Speculation. The Elevator runs at 16 MHz, and has 100 nsec RAM with no wait states. MIPS (hah) is 3.4, while the Norton Index is 18.7. Really seemed to perk up my 2000...only slow stuff are screen and disk I/O, but you can still see a heck of an improvement, especially graphics. Currently their software revision is V1.1, and it allows the use of the jdisk utilities and 2088 memory access. For more information, contact Applied Reasoning at 86A Sherman St., Cambridge, MA 02140 617-492-0700. An article on their product appears in _PC_Magazine_, October 27, 1987. Oh, BTW, I have no interest financially in their product or company, other than as a satisfied [ab]user.
rj@amiga.UUCP (Robert J. Mical) (03/10/88)
Also, Commodore folk and I have figured out some clever hardware ways that
will speed up the interaction between Bridge and Amiga so that Bridge
AT text should be able to keep up with a real AT, even perhaps an
accelerated one.
-RJ >:-{)*