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Re: boot roms for any other node types?

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I've got a boot rom for a dn300. Like, the actual DIP that you plug in to the motherboard. The original boot rom for the older nodes lived on the ring board. When ethernet was introduced, it became possible to have a node with no ring board, so we started putting the boot rom on the cpu board and had it call in to the rom on the network board. At least that's the way I remember it. There was also some trickery around the node ID, which originally was the same as the ring network address. This got complicated not only by ethernet, but by nodes with two ring boards.

I've forgotten most of how this worked. Someone should have written a book back in 1995.

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boot roms for any other node types? Chris Toshok <toshok@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 07:34 -0700
  Re: boot roms for any other node types? Jim Rees <jim.rees@rees.org> - 2016-08-29 11:37 -0700
  Re: boot roms for any other node types? Hans Ostermeyer <oh2021@t-online.de> - 2016-09-02 08:19 +0200
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