[Info-vax] Infoserver 150

[Michael Moroney]

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:

>> Let the fun begin!!

>I wonder if you'll have much luck loading Xinu that way. I would suspect 
>that the MOP server in the Infoserver does not serve random binaries, 
>but they need to be in some understood format, since the MOP protocol as 
>such pass some additional packets with various information, as well as 
>each data packet being in a specific format with some metadata.

MOP itself will work with "bits is bits" raw binaries plus a transfer
address.  I once wrote a network exerciser where one PDP 11/73 booted
several others, clones of itself (raw exerciser image, no OS) using a
primitive implementation of MOP.  MOP has extra features (load assistant
agent, load assistant parameter) used for booting VMS that aren't strictly
necessary.

Whether the Infoserver itself can do this, or Xinu can deal with this, is 
another story.