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- From: merrark@netcom.com (Mer'rark)
- Subject: Re: Pentium Bridgeboard.....Would you buy one?
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- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 17:04:06 GMT
- Sender: merrark@netcom8.netcom.com
-
- First off, YES! I'd love to see a Pentium bridgeboard, downward
- compatible with older z-2 A-2000's. Two features I want to stress that
- I haven't expressly seen yet are resource sharing (i.e. serial, parallel
- ports, video and network interfaces, basically being able to use an ISA or
- Z-2 card on either side), and emulating a VGA screen on an Amiga public
- screen, more or less how it'd be done on an Emplant.
-
- Dave Cinege (dcinege@superlink.net) wrote:
- : In <4hs8jl$4so@news.ios.com>, Jose Polit <zen@chelsea.ios.com> writes:
- : >I for one would love to share all hardware bet. ami and pc- but I dont
- : >know if you seen the ads in amiga computing, Amiga toaster user, and some
- : >other pubs about the PENTITRATOR.
- : >
- : >I call them the only thing I didnt like about it was you could not use the
- : >same monitor on both machines, and also the you could not share the ram on
- : >both platforms (ani could not use PC's ram, but PC could use ami's ram)
- : >other than that I think it was way cool. I 'll wait till they get
- : >everything working together : >
-
- : I've heard of this. It seems to me to be overkill for anyone who is not a
- : lightwave power user. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is basically a
- : daughtercard replacement, and a single board computer. And it only
- : works in the 4000T.
-
- From the ad I saw it works with a tower modified A-4000. Though it
- also said it will work with the A-4000T soon.
-
- Something to ponder though is that you might be able to use the bugger
- in an A-2000, provided you also installed a DKB Wildfire '060. It
- sports a PCI interface, which is how the Pentitrator interfaces with the
- Amiga (I'm guessing on that one. The ad wasn't very clear how that
- worked). Anyone got both boards and willing to try it? It would
- probably require some special software.
-
- --
- Mer'rark
-
-