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- From: mike@tome.media.mit.edu
- Subject: Re: FAQs...where to find them
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.085935.1810@liveware.com>
- Keywords: Answering a Bunch of Questions
- Sender: todd@liveware.com
- Reply-To: mike@media-lab.media.mit.edu
- Organization: Liveware Corporation Fort Collins, CO. USA.
- References: <1992Sep11.224100.4755@csus.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 08:59:35 GMT
- Lines: 66
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- In article <1992Sep11.224100.4755@csus.edu> hodges@huckleberry.sfsu.edu (Jack
- &) writes:
- > I saw mention, in my rn files, about someone who was interested in knowing
- > whether a NeXT cube could be upgraded to a turbo board, and the reply I
- > saved was something like "ah, another user that doesn't read the FAQs."
-
- Well, yes as I have read there are 33 Mhz upgrades available
-
- > Well, I've been looking around for them for an hour or so now, and have
- > not found them. Any salutations would be appreciated.
-
- Okay, HELLO THERE JACK!!!
-
- > Also, does anyone still have information on the folks who modify 030
- > boards for use in a cube? Or, should I say, does anyone know more
- > about the outfit, what they do, and how well it works?
-
- I am currently working on a review of this configuration. The outfit
- is called Spherical Solutions, and due to no lack of net publicity
- I am going to just say they are in Mill Valley, California USA.
-
- Here is part of a FAQ.tidbits (from May '92) and hope it helps.
-
- Subject: M2. Can I put both an 030 and an 040 system board in a single NeXT
- cube?
-
- [Note that we have no first hand experience with this problem, we
- have compiled what we consider to be an accurate report. We acknowledge
- conflicting reports where appropriate.]
-
- In general Mach may be configured as a multiprocessor operating system;
- however, the NeXT kernel is only configured to deal with one processor.
- This configuration can not be changed without access to the kernel
- sources. [hopefully NeXT will offer a multiprocessor version of the NeXT
- operating system at some future date]
-
- Some have asked about the possibility of installing the 030 board
- for use as a printserver or other CPU-intensive task server. In this
- hypothetical setup, each CPU would run its own copy of the operating
- system (essentially two different computers sharing the same cube).
-
- This might be workable except for the fact that even if the NBIC
- (NextBus Interface Chip) chip is removed, the CPU board probes the
- bus for slot ID [**a conflicting report comes from Richard Dib who
- heard that someone ran a cube with the CPU in another slot].
-
- You could do hardware modification to the 030 board which would
- isolate it enough to use only the cube as a power supply, however
- you can not run two monochrome monitor heads off the cube power supply.
- In this case you would probably want to first boot the 030 with a
- display head, set the boot prom to boot off ttya, and attach an
- ascii terminal to that serial port.
-
- >
- > Thanks...
- >
- > Jack Hodges
-
- Your welcome.
-
- Todd Nathan
- CSNAnnounce Moderator
-
- PS. If the FAQ is inaccurate it is only due to its age. It is in
- no way a reflection of Nathan Janette's work. He has done
- very hard and quality work to keep the FAQs up to date.
-