Atucc.1589 net.micro utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!tucc!sol Sat Apr 3 15:46:11 1982 Re: ucbarpa.1013: New processor cards for the Apple. i have visited alf in denver, co and seen their new 8086 card. it is into beta testing right now and should be released to the general public soon. it is a very nice looking card with the entire buss extended onto a connector. this can be used by a card plugged into the slot next to it - for example their new hires graphics memory/ dma card. this allows much faster graphics manipulation than with a standard system. on the processor card are several rom sockets. it comes with a rom that includes high speed math routines and matrix transpostion stuff. the price will be along the lines of a z-80 card from what i remember. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.