Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!tmpmbx!netmbx!hase From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: German MS-DOS emulator Message-ID: <1821@netmbx.UUCP> Date: 8 May 88 04:34:33 GMT References: <956@hhb.UUCP> Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin Lines: 21 In article <956@hhb.UUCP> rob@hhb.UUCP (Robert R Stegmann) writes: > At CeBit, ABD Electronic introduced the Supercharger, a 'co-computer' >for the Atari ST. The equipment shown consisted of a single-board computer >with an 8086, sockets for an 8087 and one Meg RAM, and working at a clock rate >of 8 MHz. It comes complete with MS-DOS 3.2, a power supply, and a cable >to connect it to the DMA port on the ST. The communication is handled by a >gate-array. The gate array will also emulate most registers of the 80XX hardware of a PC. Still there are just prototypes; there is no stable working version so far; this is coming "real soon now". Hmm, I do not like the idea of this thing. It has no slots. Ok, it will run MS DOS 3.2 and clean DOS programs, it will not support new hard/software (VGA OS/2). This is coming "real soon now" as the AT (80286) version. Hmm. hase -- Hartmut Semken, Lupsteiner Weg 67, 1000 Berlin 37 hase@netmbx.UUCP I think, you may be right in what I think you're thinking. (Douglas Adams)