I have following the Rocketeer group for about a year now. Some good interaction among the group. I have an IIfx with 3 Rockets. The host machine runs Mac OS 7.6. Additionally, two of the three rockets boot from their own hard drives through a SCSI daughter card. Thus they are completely independent computers. I also use Extreme 3D from Macromedia to utilize the asymmetrical processing capability available through the rocketshare engine software across all three machines. The Rocket under care and with your limited expectations is a very cool piece of technology. I have two G3 machines at home running OS 10.1.3, but I tend to use my experimental IIfx often for a simple joy of computing nostalgia. Very cool multitasking between PhotoShop, e-mail, Internet and Appleworks all at the same time in lighten quick efficiency (relative to Motorola 68040 processor).
I work daily as a Unix system admin in the DOD world. And I see the need for a rocket-like architecture for a dual-computing machine. One for Classified processing and one for Unclassified computing all contained within one box. Each individual machine needs to be isolated with its own hard drive and memory processing and running a separate OS along with associated applications. Lastly, each rocket-like card-computer would only have the configured/ability to connect to its own specific network. Never allowing either machines to processes or cross over into each other's network or environment. Like the original Rocket configuration that would use one intelligent host bus system like Apple's Nubus communication (a Texas Instruments creation). I have seen other Wintel-clones attempting to introduce a similar idea, but never have they come close the original Radius configuration and capability. The Wintel boxes need to be re-booted each time to go from classified to unclassified. Basically, using a different hardrive at boot up time as a selection. It uses the same board, processor, and memory. It does not even come close to the Rocket's 10-year-old functionality and possible desirable security isolation. This being said, The ultimate geek box would be a resurrected Radius-like Rocket PCI card(s) in a Apple G4 OS 10.1.3 box running a modern day Rocketshare (called it now SecureShare) that could run it own OS (OS 10.1.3), a separate hardrive, apps, network and memory. Thus you could have screaming Apple Box that would allow a Air Force General to view Mission data and other secret traffic in addition to toggling into the new Radius-like Rocket screen view to e-mail his wife, write a MS Word document, or see the latest streaming media coverage on the CNN website. All this on the fly and within on single box. I see this as a very powerful and lucrative opportunity for any programmer that could get his hands on the original Rocketshare code and documentation and rework it for Mach 3.0 Unix kernel and PCI bus requirements. Maybe Apple could see an opportunity where it has not before. I would be a huge cheer leader if it did and especially if it could work seamlessly within a Unix server environment. The Federal Government and Fortune 500 corporations would buy this product by the thousands! I know, I hear the desires from the military all the time about a needed for a multi-secure box that could do as I said previously. And I believe a modern Rocket-like/Rocketshare technology could do the job quite nicely. What do my fellow Rocketeer's think of this possiblity? Is there a resurrected life for the old Radius Rocket to be transformed into a new and exciting technology (maybe called the SecureShare)? Possibilities, Frank Rogowski Northrop Grumman US Space Command > -----Original Message----- > From: Rogowski Frank P Contr ESC /NDCT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 2:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Rocket with G3-accelerated Mac > > The rocketshare software is not functional past Mac OS 7.6. > > Frank R. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Gray [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 12:42 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Rocket with G3-accelerated Mac > > > > >I have a G3-acclerated Mac 7100 (Sonnet 250mhz); when I tried the > > >Rocket in it, it would not work at all....Which is really a shame, > > >since it would be a great upgrade to an older Nubus Powermac to have > > >a co-processor. > > > > For what, beyond the academic pride of being able to do so? What > > would it allow you to do that your G3 can't handle? And does that > > really function as a co-processor or as a parallel processor? 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