Re: http://www.sonnettech.com/product/crescendo_7200.html

["Henry B. Hotz" <hotz%jpl.nasa.gov@localhost>]

At 9:45 PM +0100 1/30/02, <wojtek%chylonia.3miasto.net@localhost> wrote:
> what do You think about this?

Looks like the CPU upgrade for an existing Mac motherboard.  We 
already support it I'll bet.

> does it have some ROM/FLASH there?

The 7200 has an Open Firmware ROM, version 1.0.5.  Some tiny amount 
of nvram, but no EEPROM.

> IMHO it could be an excellent target for porting NetBSD that case.
> passive PCI motherboards are quite cheap (at least in poland, <30$), with
> IDE controller and VGA it will make complete G3/G4 system.

I already has two SCSI controllers and an "Apple Plan B" video 
subsystem.  It's capable of driving VGA, but we only support the OF 
default of 640 X 480 at 67Hz.
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