Subject: Re: Quadra 630
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/01/2007 13:27:37
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Hello,
On Sep 1, 2007, at 07:17, Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 23:44 Uhr +0000 31.8.2007, Andrew Ball wrote:
>> HF> 7) the Quadra PDS slot (68040, special connector)
>>
>> What kind of things were available for that slot? Accelerators and
>> graphics cards?
>
> Accelerators, mostly, cache cards; the AWS95's SCSI card sits in the
> PDS.
> I've never heard of a graphics card for the '040 PDS.
I had one - a Miro Rainbow GX ( which Miro denies any knowledge of ) -
had plenty of memory, in 24bit it was faster than the Q700's onboard
video in 8bit, definitely had some sort of blitter and also a DSP ( for
photoshop I guess ).
have fun
Michael
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