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- From: univ0322@sable.ox.ac.uk (Daniel Spreadbury)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Siamese System
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 16:41:32 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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- This month's Amiga Shopper (March issue) features a three-page article on
- HiQ's Siamese System, which marries the Amiga and PC via a cunning serial port
- and software/hardware link, allowing the two machines to share the same
- keyboard and monitor, as well as SCSI devices... and even more impressively,
- allows the PC's processor to be used as a secondary processor to the Amiga's
- for rendering and so on.
-
- If you want to know more, go to: http://www.hiq.co.uk/siamese.html
-
- But I have a couple of questions (if anybody out there knows any more about
- this than I do)...
-
- 1. If you already have a Squirrel interface and an SCSI CD-Rom drive, do you
- have to ditch them both in order to use the PC's hardware, or can they still
- work? I read that the Squirrel ought to be replaced with the Surf Squirrel,
- since SCSI Bus Arbitration is required and the Surf Squirrel also has a high-
- speed serial connector (v. useful if you still want to use a modem after
- having bought a Siamese System).
-
- 2. Do the prices they quote include CD-Rom drives, power supplies, Squirrel
- interface etc?
-
- It seems that this could be one of the most exciting developments in Amiga
- expansion.... ever!
-
- Dan.
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