[Info-vax] Infoserver 150

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Johnny Billquist wrote 2012-10-20 23:21:
> 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
>

Later models (the 2 Mbyte version, if I'm not wrong) of the DECServer 90
had flash storage for firmware. Hence they are still quite pricy, the 90L
(non local firmware storage) can be had for $30-40 from eBay, the 90M
(2Mbyte local firmware storage) is asked a bit more for.

Jan-Erik.