Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!datran2!smb From: smb@datran2.uunet (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Using the old 68030 board Message-ID: <466@datran2.uunet> Date: 3 Oct 90 14:35:57 GMT References: <448@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <8673@helios.TAMU.EDU> Organization: Data Transforms, Denver, CO Lines: 21 In article , mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) writes: > this was discussed many months ago, and as i remember the consensus > was that the cube power supply would only support one of the main > NeXT boards (since they draw a lot of power for the display). the > remaining slots only supply enough power for processor-only boards. My understanding is that the main boards can be useda as long as secondary monitors are not used. NeXT was worried that people would try to plug in the second monitor and that would start a fish N chip fry. My understanding is that it was not difficult to set Mach up so that the other boards were recognized as network devices, however this might take kernel source. Something outsiders do not seem to be trusted with. Steve. -- #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====# # Steve Boker # Black holes are how God divides by zero. # # smb@datran2.uunet.uu.net # ....I have my own methods. # #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#