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From: kanefsky@cs.umn.edu (Steve Kanefsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System in Classic ROM?
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.180157.29173@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 91 18:01:57 GMT
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In article <2784581A.20126@orion.oac.uci.edu> Bill Dugan <bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu> writes:
>
>According to the latest MacWeek, the Mac LC has a boot-off-the-ROM
>capability already in ROM.  Apparently you must first set certain parts
>of the PRAM appropriately and then it will look for places on the network
>to boot.  We must assume that this will happen over Ethertalk rather than
>LocalTalk due to speed requirements.  Also apparently (I have no LC to
>prove any of this), the LC has a strange switch in the middle of the
>motherboard that has *something* to do with this mysterious capability
>of the future.

Nope, the switch on the motherboard simply resets the PRAM.


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Steve Kanefsky             
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