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From: boyne@hplvly.HP.COM (Art Boyne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GATHER and say NO to MCA!
Message-ID: <4420008@hplvly.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Jul 88 15:18:26 GMT
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Organization: HP Loveland Inst Div, CO
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farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes:

> If doing true coprocessing on the PC (AT) bus is so trivial, why haven't
> we seen cards that work, and work well?

Have you looked at the "Viper" card available from Hewlett-Packard?  I admit
to working for HP, but in the division that makes voltmeters and data acquisition
cardcages, and it seems to me that this 68000-based board running HP-BASIC and
Pascal seems to work fairly well!