rob@hhb.UUCP (Robert R Stegmann) (05/04/88)
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I recently got a copy of the May 88 issue of the German magazine c't,
and it has several articles about the ST. I have translated one of the
articles for those of you interested in MS-DOS emulation:
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At CeBit, ABD Electronic introduced the Supercharger, a 'co-computer'
for the Atari ST. The equipment shown consisted of a single-board computer
with an 8086, sockets for an 8087 and one Meg RAM, and working at a clock rate
of 8 MHz. It comes complete with MS-DOS 3.2, a power supply, and a cable
to connect it to the DMA port on the ST. The communication is handled by a
gate-array.
Since the equipment at the fair contained a prototype gate-array afflicted
with errors, we restricted ourselves to the arithmetic benchmarks
(c't 10/87, S.104). The Turbo-Pascal version gave the following results:
INTM: 0.72 sec.
REALM: 33.50 sec.
TRIG: 47.80 sec.
The Supercharger seems to be somewhat faster than a standard XT at 4.77 MHz.
June availability is anticipated; because of the increasing cost of memory
chips the existing pricing of close to 700 DM might be surpassed by about
100 Marks.
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rob
Robert Stegmann
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Disclaimer, Datclaimer, D'udderclaimer.hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) (05/08/88)
In article <956@hhb.UUCP> rob@hhb.UUCP (Robert R Stegmann) writes: > At CeBit, ABD Electronic introduced the Supercharger, a 'co-computer' >for the Atari ST. The equipment shown consisted of a single-board computer >with an 8086, sockets for an 8087 and one Meg RAM, and working at a clock rate >of 8 MHz. It comes complete with MS-DOS 3.2, a power supply, and a cable >to connect it to the DMA port on the ST. The communication is handled by a >gate-array. The gate array will also emulate most registers of the 80XX hardware of a PC. Still there are just prototypes; there is no stable working version so far; this is coming "real soon now". Hmm, I do not like the idea of this thing. It has no slots. Ok, it will run MS DOS 3.2 and clean DOS programs, it will not support new hard/software (VGA OS/2). This is coming "real soon now" as the AT (80286) version. Hmm. hase -- Hartmut Semken, Lupsteiner Weg 67, 1000 Berlin 37 hase@netmbx.UUCP I think, you may be right in what I think you're thinking. (Douglas Adams)