Hello all,
After I figured out little UTF-8 mishap/annoyance. This was the first time
I was rejected EVER from a mailing list because of my default encoding.
Ahhhh!!! Anyways...
I bought a few Radius Rockets ($100/piece) because I wanted to get
Linux/m68k to work. However, I have been far to busy and have my mitts in
too many cookie jars to focus on just one daunting task. I did manage to
talk with the VP of Engineering to get internal source code and
specifications. He said he would bring this to the board of directors. I
never heard from him, and since then I cannot find the existence of Radius
in general. BTW, where is Radius after all?!?? Their website is
non-existence. It is a shame, because I had a lot of links to their website
for various technical tidbits. I might of staved them on to a hard drive at
one point, and if I did, I'll repost them on my pages.
Back to Linux/m68k. Theoretically this could work. Some Radius Rockets have
the Q900 or Q950 Macintosh ROM. So, for all intents and purposes, a Quadra
900 kernel could possibly be pieced together. The Linux/m68k-rocket version
could not do much, as there would need to be a lot of funkiness to navigate
between what is really Q950 and what is really your machine. I remember
testing driver patches (System Update 3.0 and System 7.5) at Apple Computer,
and they had a bug where a Q950 was being patched, but it wasn't a Q950,
'cause it was an ol' IIci with a Rocket Stage 2. They had to do a check like
if Q950 or Q900, check something else to see if REALLY Q950/Q900. For
Linux/m68k another idea is that if they were using some type of interprocess
communication (AppleTalk Program-to-Program protocol), then a base driver
could be written to pipe data over to the Rocket. On the other side, the
Linux/m68k-Rocket could then take that piece and crunch it. There can be a
limited asymmetrical multi-processing... :-) Just a dream. :-)
I used to maintain a site at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/tech68k/rocket.html
I have moved this over to:
http://www.realmspace.com/tech68k/rocket.html
The interface is a little different (though seems to cascading style sheets
seems to break in IE4-Win), but overall looks ok on any browser on the Mac.
This site is still in "construction phase". Though I am desperately creating
a new spiffy interface, with some minor dynamic HTML hackery, as a template
to store all content.
Lastly, how many vintage nerds here live in SF Bay Area?!? I would like to
take my digital camera and take snap shots. I am working on some minor
technical illustrations of various Macintoshes, and so to get some photos
for reference purposes would be nice.
- Joaquin Menchaca
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