Has anyone ever come across a Novy Quik40 board?
I'm updating the format of my list of accelerators to include photos and and I came across the note below at https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/input.txt
Ready for takeoff: '040 boards: accelerator manufacturers are about to release '040 accelerators two to three times faster than Apple Computer Inc is expected to release a microcomputer based on the new Motorola 68040 chip in the fall of 1991.
The company claims that the new machine will reach speeds of two to three times those powered by the 68030 processor. Users now, however, can upgrade their current systems with 68040-based accelerator boards from several manufacturers. Novy Systems Inc's Quik40 is one of the few boards actually shipping now, though supplies are very limited. IIR Inc is expected to release its Performance/040 for the Mac II family on May 1, 1991. The Magellan 040 from Total Systems Inc is scheduled for release on May 1, 1991 as well.
Analysts contend that the 68040 boards are not for the typical end user since many popular Mac applications will not benefit from 68040 performance. Much of the speed gains will benefit high-end programs that make use of floating-point operations. The 68040 includes 4Kbytes of on-board cache as opposed to 256 bytes on the 68030 processor and also handles some instructions more efficiently than the 68030.
I'm also now hunting for information on IIR Inc, I did find a review of their cache extender card in MicroTimes, but not a lot of information so far.
Searched on the address, it appears IIR Inc became Impulse Technology, Inc sometime during 1992.
I'm updating the format of my list of accelerators to include photos and and I came across the note below at https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/input.txt
Ready for takeoff: '040 boards: accelerator manufacturers are about to release '040 accelerators two to three times faster than Apple Computer Inc is expected to release a microcomputer based on the new Motorola 68040 chip in the fall of 1991.
The company claims that the new machine will reach speeds of two to three times those powered by the 68030 processor. Users now, however, can upgrade their current systems with 68040-based accelerator boards from several manufacturers. Novy Systems Inc's Quik40 is one of the few boards actually shipping now, though supplies are very limited. IIR Inc is expected to release its Performance/040 for the Mac II family on May 1, 1991. The Magellan 040 from Total Systems Inc is scheduled for release on May 1, 1991 as well.
Analysts contend that the 68040 boards are not for the typical end user since many popular Mac applications will not benefit from 68040 performance. Much of the speed gains will benefit high-end programs that make use of floating-point operations. The 68040 includes 4Kbytes of on-board cache as opposed to 256 bytes on the 68030 processor and also handles some instructions more efficiently than the 68030.
Searched on the address, it appears IIR Inc became Impulse Technology, Inc sometime during 1992.
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