Subject: Re: tftp boot
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/05/1997 16:29:10
> But there was a mandatory FCO (a free upgrade, if I got the term
> wrong) for some PROMs, principally to make them boot from CD-rom
> devices (the rrz42, maybe).  I'm pretty certain the upgrade was to the
> 5000/200 PROMs.  (If I remember correctly, the upgrade partially broke
> MOP booting, also.) That's what I meant by `newer'.

Actually, the FCO was technically so that the 5000/200 could boot NT -
I happen to know because I had to hand-carry a pair of the FCO'd
systems up to Redmond.   But all that still happened before the
5000/25.

			       _MelloN_