CompuServe Messages

First of all, before anything else, why do you want to get an Amiga? That should be the first question answered before anything else.(I'd hate to recommend my favorite system to someone who may not need it, then wind up thinking that they wasted their money) As to the rest, 1)There are two bridge cards available now, with a third that was announced (don't know about release) and a fourth rumored under development. One is a 4.77mhz 8088 board with 512K, the 2nd is a 10mhz 286 board with 1M(I think) the 3rd is a 10mhz 8086 or Nec V20 or V30, and the last one is a rumored 386 or 386sx with EGA. All the others are CGA/Herc(I think they can be both) 2)Memory can be added via IBM slots just like any other MS-DOS system, and the system can be accelerated to a 386 using a SOTA board(I don't know what it is, or where you can get it, but from what I have heard, it gives the best results on bridgecards. 3)Anything that runs on MS-DOS, Unix, or OS/2 on an 8088 or 80286 will run on the appropriate bridge, with about as many incompatibility problems as your typical clone. 5)A Bridgecard can run in one monitor if you are using the native video modes of the bridgecard. If you use an expansion card, you have one of two choices: you can add an extra monitor to run VGA separately from the Amiga side, or you can purchase a device known as a flicker fixer for the Amiga side, and get/and/or make a switchbox(like the ones you see for printers) and hook both the amiga side and the VGA side through the switch box to a single multisync monitor(though there might be some hardware problems that I don't know about, since I don't own a bridgecard). 6) The A2000 has 4 Amiga slots and 4 IBM slots, though two slots perform double duty, so you can have either 3 and 3 or 4 and 2 or whatever. 7)The keyboard is basically the functional equivalent of an 82 key keyboard, though a 2000 can have an IBM keyboard adapted to fit it. However, the lack of an F11 or F12 doesn't really impact on the functionality of the bridge, since in my many MS-DOS travels, I've seen very few programs that