[HECnet] Which DECnet interfaces support remote, unattended, booting?

Bob Armstrong bob at jfcl.com
Fri May 17 20:20:33 PDT 2013


Also, the VAX-11/750 do not even use VMB...

  The 750 _could_ use VMB; you just had to load it from TU58.   The 750 just
didn't need VMB to boot from disk - it just had a "shortcut" (some might say
a "hack") for that path.

  And I believe the hack worked just as well for booting Unix too; that's
why the 750 was very popular with Unix sites.

And of course, nobody ever wanted to boot anything but VMS... ;-)

  Well, DEC didn't, and they did build the machine after all.

  Didn't seem to stop any of the Unix crowd from using it too.

Bob



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