And then spake Allen Briggs as follows:
> > Just a quick question - has anyone had any success running a DayStar 68040
> > accelerator on their Macs? Specifically the IIsi? I understand that the major
> > holdup on 040 based Macs is SCSI/ADB/ROMs, so should an 040
> > accelerator work in a Mac IIsi currently happily running NetBSD?
> 
> I would also be interested to hear if someone has tried this.  I have a
> Radius Rocket and I've seen some odd behavior from it, but I haven't
> investigated, yet, to see exactly what's going on.  The Daystar boards
> are _very_ different from what I can tell, and probably stand a better
> chance of working.
> 
> > I'm planning on buying something soon, until PREP/CHRP PPC. Whenever that
> > will be.
> 
> Who knows?  ;-)  Last I heard, Apple was still spec'ing out the low-level
> (register definition, etc.) parts of CHRP...  It'll be a while...

Hrm. A friend of mine has a Daystar 040 in his IIsi, but the last time we tried
NetBSD on it was back when it was still called 'MacBSD', and the version number
was like 0.9A? heh. I may try it, or have him try it, w/ a miniroot.

-Brian

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