RE: Twinax Card and Win95

[Paul Tykodi <pault@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Bob,

I think that maybe your concern is being directed to the wrong piece of 
hardware. From your description, the IBM Aptiva PC sounds like a very good 
machine. The IBM AS/400 is also known to be a good machine.

The IBM two session 5250 twinax emulation card was developed back when the IBM 
PC/XT was the most modern PC available. Maybe you should look at keeping the 
Aptiva and swapping the IBM 5250 emulation card for a BOS or a Synapse card 
that can run without the need of an IRQ.

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi, Technical Director  E-mail: pault@praim.com
Praim Inc.                                    Tel: 603-431-0606
140 Congress St., #2                Fax: 603-436-6432
Portsmouth, NH  03801-4019


To be fair, they do, now, call it a "Home/Small Office" computer.  <snip snip>

I guess I figured, that since it was the leading edge IBM PC, (200MHz, 3.1Gb 
DASD, 32Mb RAM) that it didn't qualify as a home PC. I figured people at home 
spent around $1100 to $2000 for their home systems.

Actually, what I think really happened, is that IBM added this new Mwave 
component to its PCs. Mwave and its related supporting components use up all 
remaining IRQs in the PC. Hence, even though they have 5 to 7 open slots in 
this "home" computer, you really can't add anything that might use an IRQ.


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