Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!umd5!magorian
From: magorian@umd5.umd.edu (Dan Magorian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's the best NETWORK?
Message-ID: <2756@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 19 May 88 20:00:17 GMT
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Reply-To: magorian@umd5 (Dan Magorian)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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>  Regardless, you're missing the point. WHY DOES THE BOOTSTRAP HAVE TO BE IN 
>ROM? You've got a floppy right there, boot off of it. If you're really concerned
>about updating automatically to new versions, it would be trivial to have the
>master take over the slave and update the slaves floppy automatically. The nice
>thing to do would be to ask the person before you go ahead and do it (You have
>an old version of the boot disk. Would you like it updated (Y/N)?)
>  Besides, anything less then ethernet/ethertalk is too slow to do real work
>and if you're going to shell out the bucks for for an ethertalk card, why not
>shell out a bit more for a hard disk.
>
>  I'm not surprised Apple doesn't consider putting diskless code in the Rom
>a high priority, neither do I.
>Pierce WEtter
>
Sigh.  How exactly does a "master floppy trivially take over the slave floppy
and update it"?  Sounds like technogobble to me.  The point really is, mainten
ance of boot floppies is a real pain, what with copying them, replacing ones
students steal for personal use, updating, etc.  If you haven't run into this
problem, I seriously question what kind of lab you're supposedly running. Dec
Vaxstations boot diskless from NFS servers, and if Apple's at all serious about
connectivity, they will be considering it as well.  Basically, floppy-based
thinking (should be) on it's way out...
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