kevin@gitpyr.UUCP (Kevin Campbell) (02/21/86)
I have recently seen an ad in Byte magazine (Jan 86) about the AMPRO
little board/186. I am interested in any information that anyone might
have as far as this cpu goes. It states in the ad that it is IBMPC
compatible, and yet more powerful. I see also that the board is the size
of a 5 1/4 inch disk drive, thus making it very compact.
Does anyone know if it is expandable? and if so, how?
I would appreciate any and all information that you might be able to give
me.
Thank you very much in advance.
--
Kevin Campbell
Office of Computing Services
Office Of Telecommunications and Networking
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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BITNET: CCOPRKC @ GITVM1rde@ukc.UUCP (02/25/86)
In article <1449@gitpyr.UUCP> kevin@gitpyr.UUCP writes: >I have recently seen an ad in Byte magazine (Jan 86) about the AMPRO >little board/186. I am interested in any information that anyone might >have as far as this cpu goes. It states in the ad that it is IBMPC >compatible, and yet more powerful. I see also that the board is the size >of a 5 1/4 inch disk drive, thus making it very compact. > Does anyone know if it is expandable? and if so, how? >I would appreciate any and all information that you might be able to give >me. I don't know anything about the actual machine. But if it uses an 80186 then there will be some inevitable incompatibilities because the 186 uses on-chip DMA, whereas the 8086 uses a separate chip (unless this machine uses a separate chip too and ignores the on-chip facilities; I don' know if that is possible). For 86 read 88 wherever applicable. I think there are other CPU incompatibilities (apart from the actual enhancements in the 186 which don't matter since they're upwards compatible). -- Bob Eager rde@ukc.UUCP rde@ukc ...!mcvax!ukc!rde Phone: +44 227 66822 ext 7589