From: Earl D. Fife <fife@calvin.edu>
Subject: Re: DayStar again ...
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In article <C5Fqno.9HH@news.udel.edu> Bill Johnston, johnston@me.udel.edu
writes:
> >I'm going to buy a DayStar 68040 with 25 MHz for the SE/30. Since there
> >were so many mails about problems with this board, my questions:
> >does the board work with 7.1 and A/UX 3.0 ? Does anybody know problems
> >with any kind of software ?
> 
> Well, I haven't seen any reports of problems with the Turbo '040,
> but to my knowledge, Daystar has not released a version of the 
> board that works with anything but the IIsi and IIci, and they
> have not finished tweaking/testing for use with A/UX.  This may
> not happen until the A/UX 3.0.2 upgrade is released (my guess) so 
> I'd recommend waiting or buying the 50 MHz '030 board and upgrade
> later when A/UX compatibility is assured.  Turbo '040 interface 
> cards for the II, IIx, SE/30, IIcx, etc will probably be available
> sooner, but if A/UX compatibility is a requirement, it is probably
> best to be patient and let someone else be the pioneer.  ;-)

An added advantate of waiting for the DayStar for the SE/30 is that,
just as with the '030 power cache, the '040 accelerator will plug into
the CPU socket, leaving the PDS slot free for a video card or ethernet
card.  With DayStar's upgrade path, it's a no lose situation.

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