Subject: Re: tftp boot
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/05/1997 19:39:31
On July 5, you wrote:
> > 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.

  Aaaackk...I bet *that* was a trip that needed to be followed by a
nice long shower.

  *barf*

                           -Dave McGuire
                            mcguire@neurotica.com