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Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?



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年08月05日 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
                                    ||  on a psychedelic trip
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 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
--
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


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