>Hi Pete
>
>Bad news
>
>Unless you are using 8.1 in your Pulsar, the second CPU is useless.
>
>I also have had a twin CPU (N POWER) card bought off eBay. I found that it
>crashed on 9 and 9.1 and lowendmac.com reports somewhere that the core
>processor code (Mach kernal ??) changed around Mac OS 8.5/6. I found that
>even having a second startup drive with dual CPU's (8.1 and 9.1) didn't help
>and made the Pulsar useless.
>
>So... remove the second CPU if using anything other than 7.6/8.1. and save
>up for a newer Mac. (At the end of the day the Pulsar is getting long in the
>tooth, uses very expensive memory (but I have heard that crucial.com sells
>it at the best price) uses only a 50mhz motherboard, and is BLOODY NOISY.
>
>The alternative is to try a cheap G3 card, but why bother.
>
>Ed from Cheshire
Hi Ed,
Disappointing! Apple can be a pain in the butt at times for third
party support. I bought the Pulsar two years ago as a value for money
alternative to their pricey 604's like the 8600 and the 9600 - which
still sell for silly money given their age.
Upgrading to G4 would be a logical step but impossible to justify
for the money involved unless you earn money from the kit - which I don't
- so I won't.
Looks like I'll just have to go with the flow and convert to PC
after ten years of maccing as the software upgrade path in my area of
digital imaging is gradually shrinking. Matlab 5 is the last version for
the Mac OS and a few other maths software manufacturers are reluctant to
write for a system which is heading Unix as they already have Unix
versions.
I may try Unix in the form of SGI first though.
regards
Pete
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