On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 06:29 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
> Nope, it's a NuBus card. The original Rocket can
> either completely take over the CPU function or act
> as a Mac inside your Mac. The Stage II Rocket only
> works as a seperate Mac. The accelerator function
> of the original Rocket was very limited by the
> slower speed of the NuBus so the faster CPU and
> onboard RAM were choked by the bottleneck of the
> NuBus. PDS or CPU socket accelerators work much
> better since they have direct access to the CPU
> data and address busses. I assume that's why the
> Stage II didn't have the accelerator function.
So it's better used as a separate 'Mac' as that way it just has to feed
video over the NuBus rather than all the RAM and CPU calls. Or an I way
off?
Also a question, does it require a separate NuBus video card to feed a
second monitor in second 'Mac' mode?
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