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I recently got a copy of the May 88 issue of the German magazine c't,
and it has several articles about the ST.  I have translated one of the
articles for those of you interested in MS-DOS emulation:

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  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.
  Since the equipment at the fair contained a prototype gate-array afflicted
with errors, we restricted ourselves to the arithmetic benchmarks
(c't 10/87, S.104).  The Turbo-Pascal version gave the following results:

INTM:	 0.72 sec.
REALM:	33.50 sec.
TRIG:	47.80 sec.

  The Supercharger seems to be somewhat faster than a standard XT at 4.77 MHz.
June availability is anticipated; because of the increasing cost of memory
chips the existing pricing of close to 700 DM might be surpassed by about
100 Marks.
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rob

Robert Stegmann
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