Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: McCray Anyone? Message-ID: <8029@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 18:15:29 GMT References: <797@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 21 in article <797@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP>, hedstrom@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Brad Hedstrom) says: > In the article ``New Life for the NuBus'' in July 89's Macworld, which deals > with NuBus cards for the Mac II, they list a card based on the AMD 29000 > processor called McCray. I've been trying to get in touch with the > manufacturer, YARC Systems, for a couple of days. I have yet to get though (no > answer). Does anyone know anything about this product or the company? Perhaps > they've gone the way of so many other computer accessory companies... This board, now called McSuper, was mentioned in MIPS magazine last month, so I suspect it's still quite available. They only briefly mentioned it; I think a full write up on it is due out next month. It was apparently the fastest RISC systems they'd seen so far (though to be fair, most others have to run whole operating systems alongside the MIPS benchmark code). The 29K is quite an interesting design.... > Brad Hedstrom, University of Victoria, ECE Dept. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy Too much of everything is just enough