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| Click here to select a new forum. | | yarc zuma se nubus card | Posted by: Bolle on 2008-05-20 23:44:11
anyone ever heard of a card called "YARC ZUMA SE"
stumbled across this on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=320254694462&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=011
what does it do? is it a CPU upgrade? did never hear anything of 601 upgrades for the nubus slot before
| Posted by: Charlieman on 2008-05-21 04:43:36
YARC made various products for the pre-press publishing market. The card you own is probably a PostScript RIP processor.
| Posted by: TylerEss on 2008-05-24 11:11:11
Another common application for YARC's RISC co-processor cards was as a dedicated 3d-rendering accelerator. The MacRageous card is one that comes to the top of my head as going in a NuBus Mac to accelerate apps like StrataVision 3D.
Apparently this board is a general-purpose PowerPC coprocessor board; something a programmer can write code for and hand off difficult computations to the PowerPC chip on the card.
ewbury Park, Calif. - Mac in-house developers can catch the PowerPC wave with a new coprocessor board from YARC Systems Corp.
The Zuma coprocessor, which runs on any NuBus-equipped Mac, includes a PowerPC 601 RISC chip running at 50, 66 or 80 MHz with a 32-Kbyte cache and a 64-bit data bus. It comes with 16 Mbytes of high-speed dynamic RAM and supports full 32-bit access to the Mac motherboard or other NuBus-based peripherals, YARC said. The company said users can install up to four Zumas in a single Mac.
The Zuma is available stand-alone or bundled with a suite of native PowerPC development tools.
Unlike a PowerPC accelerator, Zuma speeds only applications written to take advantage of it.
The 66-MHz Zuma is $3,595, or $4,495 with the developer tools. The 80-MHz is $4,995 and sold only with the developer bundle. Pricing for the 50-MHz version has not been set.
YARC Systems Corp. is at 975 Business Center Circle, Newbury Park, Calif. 91320. Phone (805) 499-9444; fax (805) 499-4048. | Posted by: Temetka on 2008-05-24 13:37:55
I think the seller ships to the US, maybe I should grab it.
Hmmm....
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2008-05-24 21:07:40
Do drivers for those cards still exist?
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2008-05-25 00:58:48
From the sound of it, they don't really have "drivers" per se - more a situation where you sit down and write them yourself.
| Posted by: beachycove on 2008-05-25 06:57:24
According to one of my better reference books, MacRenderman, Infini-D, & PresenterPro were written to take advantage of Yarc Nubus boards when installed.
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