Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?

Michael Thompson <[email protected]> Tue, 5 Aug 2025 10:12:42 -0400

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> For sure you could have it like that. But the boot roms of an M9312
> could never fit anything close to a MOP implementation, so unless the
> controller does more, a PDP-11 back in the day would never have been
> able to netboot.
>
>    Johnny
>
> --
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>
>
Diskless PDP-11s were often used as front-end processors on PDP-10s and
netbooted using DDCMP from 4x ROMs on an M9312.

-- 
Michael Thompson