Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!mimsy!eneevax!lbruck
From: lbruck@eneevax.UUCP (Lewis S.Bruck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac ][ bashing
Message-ID: <1710@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 88 01:50:17 GMT
References: <590@super.ORG> <5125@gryphon.CTS.COM> <3093@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM <7947@cup.portal.com> <4440@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: lbruck@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Lewis S.Bruck)
Organization: Elec. Eng. Dept., U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
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In article <4440@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
>In article <7947@cup.portal.com> Chad_The-Walrus_Netzer@cup.portal.com writes:
>>"1.3 will let me boot from 'any' device, huh... Does that mean I can boot from
>>NIL:?"
>
>First you'd have to equip your NIL: with the appropriate boot ROMS.
>Second, you'd have to make your NIL: into a filesystem device.
>(we don't boot from printers, either)

Regarding the need for auto-boot ROMs...I have heard that it is possible
to boot from RAD: which does not have ROMs (stuck memory bits aside :-)
How does this work?  Did I hear incorrectly?

Thank you.

Lewis Bruck
lbruck@eneevax.umd.edu

"Imaginos: A Bedtime Tale for the Children of the Damned"--Blue Oyster Cult