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From: lau@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Ethernet board for Apollo3000 Actually a 3Com503 Board?
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Date: 13 Oct 89 14:34:06 GMT
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In article <5520@hacgate.UUCP> lori@hacgate.UUCP (Lori Barfield) writes:
>
>Actually, this little PROM isn't necessary at all.  The only thing it
...
>But since this check comes last, the loss is trivial.  You can EX AEGIS
>anyway.
>
>...lori

I think there is one caveat here.  The PROM (?) is necessary for
*diskless* machines (yes, we have a few) to be able to boot over the
ethernet.  We have a node without this PROM still running SR9.7 because
we can't get it the recognize the DI E command to run the SR10 invol.


Yan.
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