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Catching the Night Train Re: Interesting Re: Decompiling the Reference Diskette and associated programs

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The RPL mechanism exists. I'm unaware of any existing MCA ethernet 
adapter that supports a large flash ROM.

Instead of RIPLing off an Ethernet network, how about a new ethernet NIC 
that has one purpose. That is to act like the RPL server or whatever so 
we can run a refdisk off of it.

Louis Ohland wrote:
> Kevin, how do we access the larger BOOT ROM that is on the McIDE?
> 
> So... the system boots from the original ROMs on the sysboard, then once 
> POS has configured the system, then the control is passed to the flash 
> on the McIDE?
> 
> I suppose an analogy could be accomplished with an updated ethernet NIC 
> which supports the bigger flash ROMs?
> 
> Kevin Bowling wrote:
>> That sounds cool.  There are some machines where slots are at a 
>> premium so it would be ideal there.  For those where it isn't, maybe 
>> easier to extend something like the McIDE which I think has boot 
>> hooks, and it could all reasonably fit in an external flash boot ROM 
>> BIOS, including all system types and all ADFs?

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Decompiling the Reference Diskette and associated programs "Josh Rodd" <joshua.at.rodd.dot.us@rodd.us> - 2026-07-30 17:57 +0000
  Take me to the PROM Re: Decompiling the Reference Diskette and associated programs Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-07-30 20:07 -0500
  Re: Decompiling the Reference Diskette and associated programs Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-07-30 19:59 -0700
    Interesting Re: Decompiling the Reference Diskette and associated programs Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-07-30 23:53 -0500
      Catching the Night Train Re: Interesting Re: Decompiling the Reference Diskette and associated programs Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-07-30 23:58 -0500
      Re: Interesting Re: Decompiling the Reference Diskette and associated programs Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-07-30 23:08 -0700
        Re: Interesting Re: Decompiling the Reference Diskette and associated programs Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> - 2026-07-31 08:26 -0500
          Re: Interesting Re: Decompiling the Reference Diskette and associated programs Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-07-31 10:41 -0700

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