[Info-vax] Infoserver 150

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sat Oct 20 17:21:29 EDT 2012


On 2012-10-20 22:55, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2012-10-20 15:24, JF Mezei wrote:
>> Question about MOP booting and Infoservers:
>
> [...]
>
>> I don't remember how terminal server configs were stored. Were they on
>> non volatile memory on a server like DECserver 200 ? Or were they copied
>> back to the MOP host to be appended to the load file ? (I just realised
>> how far this info is for me , last time I played with a decserver was in
>> early 1990s).
>
> DECservers have non-volatile memory in which it stores the
> configuration. It does not read anything more than the basic image to
> run by MOP. After that, it's all independent of anything else.

I should condition this statement. I've only played with DS100, DS200 
and DS300, for which I know this is true. Other DECservers I don't know 
about.

	Johnny

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