[Info-vax] Infoserver 150

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-10-20 02:08, George Cornelius wrote:
> In article <k5sfin$eui$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> On 2012-10-19 22:42, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <aedrmsF60fgU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>>> Once I have it up and running, can a PDP-11 boot off of it, too?
>>>
>>> That I do not know.
>>
>> The answer is "no". :-)
>> Some PDP-11s do know how to netboot, but only using MOP.
>> As far as I've understood infoservers, they are more than just MOP boot
>> servers...
>
> A common use of Infoservers was for booting terminal servers.  Load
> on a host could get rather high if all terminal servers in a large
> building or campus rebooted due to a power failure.

Aha. Cool. I didn't know that.

> I don't see why a PDP-11 could not boot from them if it could
> boot via MOP.

Right. If an Infoserver can serve DECserver, then it can also serve a 
PDP-11.

> Of course, the disk serving protocols inuse (LAD and LAST)
> would probably be completely foreign to a PDP11 O/S. Still,
> you could likely load diagnostics or RSX11S boot images.

Thanks. LAD and LAST were the things I was thinking of earlier, without 
remembering the names. Yes, those protocols are not known in the PDP-11 
world today.
And RSX11S is the only PDP-11 OS I know of which was pretty much 
designed for netbooting, except of course things like terminal servers...

	Johnny