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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ROM Disk
Message-ID: <9780@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 23 Nov 90 00:40:43 GMT
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In article <40071@ut-emx.uucp> james968@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (James Hammett) writes:
>In the afternoon our service came by and made another comment about using the
>Classic as a diskless Appletalk workstation.  It does save startup info on 
>mounting servers (including the user ID and password).   That may be one of the
>possible uses of the ROM disk.


  Someone asked some time ago whether any other machines had the potential
of booting across a net.  Well, the Mac LC developer notes indicated that it
did, although I'm not sure whether it's implemented the same way.

  Thus, this kind of thing may be real common in current Macs.  I'm pretty
excited about AppleShare 3.0 myself...

--- Mark Wilkins
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