Real Time Coprocessor boards for the Mac II ?

Article View: comp.sys.mac

Article #32593

#32593

From: Mark J. McIntosh
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1988 22:59

36 lines
2492 bytes

   A researcher here is looking for a platform from which to do
robotics control.  His application requires high floating point performance.  
He is looking for an easy to use development environment as well.  
I mentioned the Macintosh Coprocssor Platform (MCP) and MR-DOS to him, 
but am concerned about its floating point capabilities.  I don't have any
hands-on experience with it.
  Has anyone used the MCP for real time control?  How easy is it to use,
in general?  What, exactly, is on the card that is sold for it (the one
with some prototyping space)???  How has your experience with MR-DOS
been?  With MPW?  He is interested in its multitasking capability as
well.
   Does anyone have any pointers to other Nubus cards for which a basic
multi-tasking executive is available (real time or not)?  He has built
the robotic interface and only requires a parallel port to control it.
   The big question here is the floating point performance.  He has 
some rather large equations to evaluate in his control algorithm.
How about just using the MacII CPU for control?? Any info appreciated!

Please respond via e-mail.  I will post a summary if there is sufficient
interest.

Thanks,
Mark J. McIntosh <mmcintos%uvunix.uvic.cdn@ubc.CSNET>
_____________________________________________________________________________
University of Victoria, ECE Dept. | "...the mystery of life isn't a problem to
Box 1700, Victoria, BC, Canada    |     solve but a reality to experience."
V8W 2Y2            (604) 721-7211 |                       from Dune
UUCP: ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!uvicctr!mmcintos 
-- 
_____________________________________________________________________________
Mark J. McIntosh <mmcintos%uvunix.uvic.cdn@ubc.CSNET>
University of Victoria, ECE Dept. | "...the mystery of life isn't a problem to
Box 1700, Victoria, BC, Canada    |     solve but a reality to experience."
V8W 2Y2            (604) 721-7211 |                       from Dune
UUCP: ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!uvicctr!mmcintos

Technical Details

Message-ID: <510@uvicctr.UUCP>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!princeton!njin!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!uvicctr!mmcintos

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!princeton!njin!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!uvicctr!mmcintos
From: mmcintos@uvicctr.UUCP (Mark J. McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Real Time Coprocessor boards for the Mac II ?
Message-ID: <510@uvicctr.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 88 22:59:40 GMT
Sender: uucp@super.ORG
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
Lines: 36