On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:36:22 -0700 
 Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote:

 > a MIPS machine?  The boot roms will only boot off of a DOS FAT file
 > system, so you need to have a small one on your hard disk to boot

Many PowerPC systems are like this, as well.

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