Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Maybe I should have been a bit more explicit. Ethernet booting is what 
I'm talking about here.
Yes, booting over serial, using DDCMP also existed, and you could call 
that netbooting too.

  Johnny

On 2025-08-05 16:12, Michael Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost 
> <mailto:bqt%softjar.se@localhost>> wrote:
>
>
>     For sure you could have it like that. But the boot roms of an M9312
>     could never fit anything close to a MOP implementation, so unless the
>     controller does more, a PDP-11 back in the day would never have been
>     able to netboot.
>
>         Johnny
>
>     -- 
>     Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
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>     Reading murder books
>     pdp is alive!                    ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>
>
> Diskless PDP-11s were often used as front-end processors on PDP-10s and 
> netbooted using DDCMP from 4x ROMs on an M9312.
>
> --
> Michael Thompson

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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt%softjar.se@localhost             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol