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Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?



On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM Johnny Billquist <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

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Diskless PDP-11s were often used as front-end processors on PDP-10s and netbooted using DDCMP from 4x ROMs on an M9312.

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