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- From: jmason@dynanet.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: About the Emplant 586
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 03:47:40 GMT
- Organization: DynaNet, Inc.
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- I'm planning on purchasing an Amiga 4000T once Amiga starts
- shipping them with 060's or faster 040's. I'd then like to
- consolidate my IBM clone hardware with the 4000T, taking the SIMMs,
- hard drives, printer, ext. modem, etc. seeing what I can do with them
- with the Amiga.
- Once I'd done that I thought I would get the Emplant card and
- be able to run Mac software and with the 586 module my existing
- library of DOS/Windows software. But know I hear that the 586 module
- isn't all it's cracked up to be. Of course I've only based my opinion
- of what the 586 module can do based on U.U.I.'s ads in magazines (the
- benchmark test results above a screen shot of the DOOM main menu).
- What I'd like to know is, whether the 586 module performs
- better on "higher end" machines or with the addition of other
- expansion devices (i.e. graphics cards, accelerators)? If so whether
- it would be capable of outperforming the 486DX2/66 I currently have?
- Or if it's worth getting at all?
-
- I'd also like to know how I'd take advantage of the IBM
- compatible expansion slots in Amigas. What exactly can they be used
- for... I'm assuming I couldn't stick an IBM PC I/O card into the
- A2000 I have and expect it to work.
-