[rescue] Mac Risc accelerator nubus card

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Aug 8 15:41:31 CDT 2002


On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:33:32PM -0400, Big Endian wrote:

> MMMM.... YARC coproc board.  I remember drooling over these back in 
> the day.  I have an ancient macuser (remember them?) mag w/ a review 
> of them.  Basically what this did was coprocess certain operations in 
> certain apps like photoshop and some 3d rendering packages of the 
> day.  Unless you are running software that can take advantage of them 
> they are relatively useless today.  Right up your alley but not great 
> these days w/o the docs or original plugins.

Hmm.  I already find the 840avs DSP acceleration of photoshop to be
near useless.  And I haven't found the software for my ThunderIV card's
DSP daughterboard (which has 4 3210 DSP chips) yet, and I doubt I'll
find it very usefull either.  I guess I probably don't need to tackle
this board also.  Especially since it doesn't seem to come with docs or
compilers.  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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