dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht) (04/20/91)
Was just looking at a System Integrators Magazine and seeing a rather interesting product made me want to pose a question to the Commodore hardware types. The product in particular which I saw was a 25Mhz 486 with up to 32M of RAM, a parallel port, a serial port, IDE port, SCSI port, a floppy port, PS/2 keyboard port, and a PS/2 mouse port. All of this was located on one AT card. Mind you the board probably costs a fortune but, nevertheless given my limited understanding of the PC bus inside the 2000/3000 I figured the board probably should work and it would give you a high powered PC and an Amiga all in one box. Even has a spot on board for a ROM drive. Of course, it wouldn't have the bridge board's capability to communicate to the Amiga side and you would probably want to use a VGA card and a switch box to flip between the Amiga display and the PC display. Also, you would need to install a floppy and hard drive somewhere for the PC to use. Still, it is an interesting idea. Any reason it wouldn't work? David Albrecht
drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) (04/21/91)
In article <337@toylnd.UUCP> dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht) writes: >Was just looking at a System Integrators Magazine and seeing a rather >interesting product made me want to pose a question to the Commodore >hardware types. The product in particular which I saw was a 25Mhz >486 with up to 32M of RAM, a parallel port, a serial port, IDE port, >SCSI port, a floppy port, PS/2 keyboard port, and a PS/2 mouse port. >All of this was located on one AT card. Mind you the board probably >costs a fortune but, nevertheless given my limited understanding >of the PC bus inside the 2000/3000 I figured the board probably should >work and it would give you a high powered PC and an Amiga all in one box. >Even has a spot on board for a ROM drive. >Of course, it wouldn't have the bridge board's capability to communicate >to the Amiga side and you would probably want to use a VGA card and a switch >box to flip between the Amiga display and the PC display. Also, you >would need to install a floppy and hard drive somewhere for the PC >to use. Still, it is an interesting idea. Any reason it wouldn't work? this and similar products that are designed to drive a passive xt or at backplane should work in the 2000 or 3000's xt/at slots. no guarantees, of course. >David Albrecht --Scotty -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Scott Drysdale Software Engineer Commodore Amiga Inc. UUCP {allegra|burdvax|rutgers|ihnp4}!cbmvax!drysdale PHONE - yes. "Have you hugged your hog today?" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=