Subject: Re: Radius Rocket 33
To: Denny <rdhender@iupui.edu>
From: Nathan Raymond <nate@staff.feldberg.brandeis.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/13/1998 15:23:50
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Denny wrote:
> on 5/13/98 10:55 AM Colin Wood digitized the following ; ^)~ &
> >
> >I seriously doubt that it works, and it's certainly not "supported" per
> >se. However, I could always easily be wrong. If you happen to have one,
> >please try it and let us know :-)
>
> I tried it once with my IIcx and 1.2 It wouldn't boot.
>
> I'd consider loaning it if someone would like to work on it.
I believe the Radius Rocket was one of the few products that
used A/ROSE (Apple Real-time Operating System Extension). It was NuBus
based, and required extensions in order to be active, otherwise it would
just sit in the slot and do nothing - it was really its own computer, with
its own memory and subsystems. In fact, to use it you basically booted
twice. And if you had RocketShare software, you could stick 2 or more
boards in the same computer and boot them all independantly, each in their
own window! It was highly incompatible, as accelerators go, but a cool
idea. (I rank it up there with the SE/30 video card that could take a
piggy-backed daughtercard that adapted the interal black and white screen
to a 256 greyscale screen.) I'd say there's next to no hope of using the
Rocket under NetBSD ever.
--
Nathan Raymond
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