Jackson, Mississippi-based Ergon Technologies Inc has picked up Chips & Technologies Inc’s Puma microprogrammable accelerator chip set, which incorporates a 64-bit bit-slice processor and a bus interface chip that in turn is a full bus master to create XLR8-IT, a Windows accelerator kit for AT and EISA bus machines designed to give a dramatic to performance of systems using Windows 3.0 and AutoCAD. The company offers a Windows Accelerator Kit, an AutoCAD Accelerator Kit, a LaserJet Printer Adaptor Kit and an AutoCAD Software option for the Windows Kit. The Windows Accelerator is designed to enable 80286 users to get fast Windows performance without upgrading to 80386-based computers – and the thing also speds 80386- and 80486-based computers. It is said to speed all aspects of Windows 3. environments, including the Windows Graphical User Interface and laser printing of Windows-based documents. It accelerates graphics-intensive applications by offloading many Windows graphical driver interface tasks. The on-board rasteriser bypasses the laser printer’s electronics and delivers data directly to the print engine via an interface board. The Wind ows Accelerator board uses one 16-bit slot. The Auto CAD Accelerator offers sim ilar capabilities. The Windows Accelerator Kit is $500, the AutoCAD, $650, the Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet II/III Adaptor is $130 and the AutoCAD Accelerator Software Enhancement for Windows Accelerator, $250.
