680x0's, Towers, & Serendipity

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon Jun 8 18:18:01 1998

<> The tower actually *boots* from the tape during install! Is that
<> crazy or what?
<
<What's strange about that? My old Zilog S8000 (Z8001 processor) does the
<same. And most minis can boot from their tape drvies. It's a standard way
<boot real machines.

Bigtime
PDP-11s (rsts, RSX-11 and even RT on tape), vaxen all can. I've booted
CPM from paper tape!

Allison
Received on Mon Jun 08 1998 - 18:18:01 BST