Subject: Re: Newbie question
To: John Wilson <wilson@dbit.dbit.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/29/1997 14:22:49
On October 29, you wrote:
> The 750 is very different from the 730 in this regard.  I mean, the 750
> actually *has* microcode when it first wakes up!  The 730 doesn't even
> have disk boot ROMs, to boot from an RA81 you need to load the boot block
> from the TU58 (after about 15 minutes of loading microcode), and *it* does
> the booting.  But this means that theoretically it can boot from any device
> that you write a boot program for right?  So it's not impossible, it's just
> a matter of lots of hard work...  :-)

  Ahh, yes...I was getting that mixed up with the 750.  The 750 has
microcode on-board but it can be *updated* by loading microcode from
TU58.  The 730 (and 725) actually need to load *all* their microcode
from TU58 upon powerup.  Neat!

                    -Dave McGuire
                     mcguire@neurotica.com