Booting a PDP-11/04 without drives?

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Fri May 28 11:11:44 2004

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:

> Hello list,
> Is it possible to boot a 11/04 (16kW core) without any drives?
>
> This may just be fantasizing..
> 1. Connect a PC to the PDP via the console
> 2. Have a program (a'la vtserver) serve out a disk image
> 3. Toggle in a bootstrap loader to load from that virtual disk
> 4. Jump to start of image
>
> Possible?
Very possible. That is how Xinu worked, and how various of my
"fun things" work.

--f
Received on Fri May 28 2004 - 11:11:44 BST