On 06/24/2018 08:49 AM, James Knott wrote:
Booting from the network has been around at least as long as bootp.
An example. About 40 years ago, I started maintaining Collins 8500C computers. With these computers, you could do an IPL from a disk or tape drive out on the LAN. Even a card reader could be used if needed. There was no internal drive to boot from. It also used core memory, so you could turn the computer off and restart the software after you powered up. Also, this LAN predated both IP and Ethernet. It used Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) over the network, instead of packets or frames as used with IP & Ethernet. Devices were assigned a time slot to transmit in and received on whatever time slot the data came in on. This was coordinated via an "order wire" that had it's own time slot and was received by all devices. The order wire was sort of the broadcast or multicast of the day. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org