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I had another boss at the same company that filled a NeXT cube to capacity with motherboards. For the sake of a good story I will say he had them all running un
by detourdog 4y ago
I had another boss at the same company that filled a NeXT cube to capacity with motherboards. For the sake of a good story I will say he had them all running under the same Mach kernel. He described the simple thing he did to get it running, but I have forgotten.
Technology was moving really fast in those days.
- johndoe0815 4y agoHere's how to run multiple NuBus CPU boards in a Cube - it requires some modifications to the backplane: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/NeXTcube_running_68030_and_68040_boards https://wiki.preterhuman.net/NeXTcube_running_68030_and_6804... The additional boards were netbooted via bootp/tftp, so the additional boards could run the same kernel as the one the hard disk (and/or MO drive) was connected to. Of course, this is a distributed memory machine - not much different than running three diskless Cubes booting from a fourth machine.
- retrobyte 4y agoThere’s a rebuild of a NeXTcube with 4 motherboards being detailed here: https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=4950.0 https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=4950.0