Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Using the old 68030 board Message-ID: <52796@brunix.UUCP> Date: 11 Oct 90 03:49:38 GMT References: <448@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <8673@helios.TAMU.EDU> <287@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 19 In article <287@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: >In short, I think that power and ventilation aren't the problem. >The problem is more likely to be that NeXT wants the boards as >trade-ins. The problem is not having two boards in one system, but running two monochrome megapixel displays from two boards. Thus the system has to supply two times the high currency for the display. If you have just two processor boards and only one monochrome megapixel display, then there shouldn't be a problem from power supply. Of course you would need the bus chip and most probably some MACH modifications or device drivers. But I guess these things are best answered by some NeXT people. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet