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From: grant@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Grant Schampel)
Subject: Re: PC-Card (Need your opinion)
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In article <rshapiro-1112950754210001@ipa.bbn.com>, rshapiro@bbn.com (R
Shapiro) wrote:

>In article <wayfarer-1012950725290001@wayfarer.novia.net>,
>wayfarer@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tom ginie K.) wrote:
>
>>I am looking for a PC/dos-card(Houdini2 kind) to install in Apple Power
>>Macintosh 6100.
>>I have heard it words okay with unix-flavorOS, Lynx or F.bsd.
>
>This has already been answered. The only extant 6100 DOS card does NOT
>support any operating systems other than DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows For
>Workgroups 3.11 (more or less) and Windows 95.

I can't believe I have a correction to *this* guy; he's my guru in these
matters.  And in truth, I haven't tried it yet; we're still waiting for
funds to get approved.  But: Orange Micro makes a full PC-on-a-NuBus-card,
*and* an adapter for the 6100's PDS slot (and it even has room for a
PCMCIA Ethernet card, in case you  need to run the same stack from both
processors at once).  It *should* work.  (Of course, for "should" and a
quarter you can get a cup of bad coffee.)  Call them and ask them, and
insist on a trial period.  We hope to get 1, and then more if the first
works.  It's a cinch that you'll have an interesting accumulation of scar
tissue....

-- 
Grant Schampel
Laboratory Information Systems, University of Minnesota Hospital & Clinic
Box 198 Mayo Bldg., 420 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN   55455-0392                  (612) 626-3539
Opinions are my own, of course; not my employer's official views

also GCSchampel@aol.com