There are many items of interest in this piece, but the one that stands out for me is the statement that there would be no incompatibilities: "Daystar says its 060 accelerators will run any software that's compatible with the 040, because the 060 uses exactly the same instruction set."
Daystar, which knew what it was up to, evidently did not envision the need for a System re-write to support the 060, since the product was to be precisely an upgrade board for people who wanted to run their old systems and their existing libraries of 68k software for another couple of years (rightly pointing out that a PPC would not be faster than an 040 Mac if running 68k software). Presumably a Control Panel and an extension were in the works, but that is scarcely the same as a major change in the OS itself — which is what we usually hear when the idea of an 060 in a Mac is mooted.
Why, then, has there been so much poo-pooing the idea of an 060 working in a Mac? Couldn't this, in principle, be done the Open Source way if (and here is where it falls apart) there were enough interest?