> to a 256 greyscale screen.)  I'd say there's next to no hope of using the
> Rocket under NetBSD ever.

Never say never. :) The topic of using the card came up a while ago and I had
kind of a cool idea to get it to work. A copy of the post follows. Maybe
somebody will do something with the idea.

Old message from me:
>NuBus cards that had on-board CPU's were supposed to run A/ROSE which was
>a mini-OS. I assume you had to run A/ROSE for the Rocket to run, right?
>
>In that case, what you do to get the card to work is treat it like a
>separate computer "networked" to the machine. A good place to start might
>be to take the m68k/VME kernel and adapt it to the Rocket. Then what you
>do is make the card's NuBus slot an ifconfigable network. Then you add
>a similar ifconfigable network driver to NetBSD/mac68k.
>
>So the machine boots twice in a sense. First the motherboard CPU boots
>NetBSD/mac68k and then a special bootstrap lkm or something would boot
>NetBSD/rocket68k (sounds like a nice name) on the card. The card then
>acts like a diskless server and connects to the motherboard over the
>"network".
[snip]
>So essentially the Rocket runs as a headless, diskless, machine with an
>ultra-high speed bus network to the motherboard machine. So you do things
>like start your X server on the Motherboard processor, telnet into the
>Rocket, and run your clients and anything else off the Rocket. You
>could even setup the motherboard as a gateway for the rocket or use IP NAT
>and have it do things like serve printers or have other access to the network.
>
>Some other nice things might be to let the rocket grab other NuBus slots so
>it can do things like grab a secondary ethernet card or even better, a video
>card

Can you imagine a Q950 with 6 Rockets in it? :)