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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: ROM Disk and other machines?
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Date: 9 Nov 90 19:00:42 GMT
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>It's purpose is simply to boot the machine for use as a diskless 
>workstation, then switch to a System (7.0 or higher) on an AppleShare 
>server.  AppleShare 3.0 (or whatever it's going to be called) is supposed 
>to provide good support for that.

It's kind of ironic that the current AppleShare REFUSES to switch-launch
to a network volume.  I do wish sometimes that Apple wasn't so very interested
in protecting us from ourselves.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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