mtheo@well.sf.ca.us (Mark Theodoropoulos) (01/06/91)
The PC-Elevator 386 board from Applied Reasoning got good reviews when it first came out. The company has discontinued the line and no longer supports Amiga, having moved on to the Apollo market. Does anyone have firsthand experience running this board with the CBM XT Bridgeboard, particularly with ADOS 1.3, Janus 2.0, and MS-DOS 3.3? I have the opportunity to pick one up cheap, can't get along without *some* PeeSea capability, and drool over the claimed 12x speedup, but I can't see giving up the current OSs. Setup is A2000+2Meg, A2088, Lapine 20M HD with SMS controller on XT card. Horror stories or encouragement would be very welcome. Thanks. -- mtheo@well.sf.ca.us || My other .signature is a quotable witticism.
mtheo@well.sf.ca.us (Hideo Gump) (01/10/91)
In the referenced article, I wrote: > >The PC-Elevator 386 board from Applied Reasoning got good reviews >when it first came out. The company has discontinued the line and >no longer supports Amiga, having moved on to the Apollo market. > >Does anyone have firsthand experience running this board with the >CBM XT Bridgeboard, particularly with ADOS 1.3, Janus 2.0, and >MS-DOS 3.3? I have the opportunity to pick one up cheap . . . > I did try the board, and had no luck with Janus 2.0, although the 386's POST--up until the point where it coughed blood--was fast enough to make you drool. Applied Reasoning's exceptionally pleasant tech support staff confirmed that it's no go. If you're willing to live without the enhanced services of version 2, you might want to check this out as a cheap way of speeding up the lowly XT BB to a scream. Otherwise, the 2286, or for that matter a cheap clone if you have the desk space :-), seems to be the best way to keep the MS-DOGods pacified. -- mtheo@well.sf.ca.us || My other .signature is a quotable witticism.