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From: mazu@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Marc Mazuhelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Classic question
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Date: 4 Dec 90 19:32:25 GMT
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In article <1990Dec2.093816.26712@world.std.com> boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin) writes:
>
>MacWeek reported that the stripped-down System 6.0.2 in the Classic's ROM
>comes with client AppleShare.  But of course you would not be able to 
>run any INITs and I'm not sure how fonts are handled.  Seems to me that this
>is an idea which needs some work before it becomes viable, and also one
>that would be attractive only to the most financially-desperate institutional
>user (given the slow speed of anything running off the server across 
>AppleTalk).

What about this scenario:  you power-up your (diskless) Mac, it boots
from its ROM disk, establishes a connection with an AppleShare
server (running ApleShare version 3 (or 4 :-)) where your real system 
folder is (with all its inits, fonts, ...).  Then it becomes a bit less
obvious...  The Mac does a "pseudo-reboot" with the remote system
folder, loading all the inits, cdevs, ... and (after a few minutes)
you're up and running!

That way, the fact that the system on the ROM disk is minimal is no
problem, since it's only used to locate your remote system folder on
the server.

I made most of this up, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere (don't
remember where) that version 3 of AppleShare (will it be released 
by CLaris or Apple? :-)) could have some features for diskless 
workstations.

Now how about some predictions on the time it would take to boot
with 20 or 30 inits and cdevs???

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