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8386 board for vax

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From: John Doc Hayward
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1988 04:57
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Has anyone had experience with any 8386 boards which plug into vax computers.
I think a company called "clearpoint" located in NJ or CA may sell such a
product.  At one point another company called "bridge" had a board for 
z-80 and/or 8088 board.

My questions are:
1) does it impact the performance of the vax system?
2) is main memory shared or is there memory on board?
3) is there one board per user or can only 1 user use msdos applications at a
   time?
4) Does it use unibus, massbuss, SI bus or Q-bus?
5) How "compatible" is it with various software for the pc (screen handling?)

Any experiences will be appreciated.
Please e-mail as I do not always get to these groups.  Thanks in advance.

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From: johnh@wheaton.UUCP (John Doc Hayward)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus,comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
Subject: 8386 board for vax
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Date: 1 Mar 88 04:57:27 GMT
Organization: Wheaton College, Wheaton Il
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Keywords: vax, msdos, 8386