6 Aug
2015
6 Aug
'15
6:54 a.m.
On 06/08/15 14:38, Jay West wrote:
Gene wrote...
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One thing I don't understand - why can't the machine boot on its own? Why
would IBM design a computer that required another computer just to boot it?
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To report higher sales of OS2/Warp? ;)
Not the only one though, ISTR the 11/780 used a 11/03 to boot?
I think many of the larger VAXen had another processor in there to boot.
The VAX 8500/8700/8000 used a PRO iirc.
I think the VAX 9000 used a Microvax II CPU as the boot processor.
I always assumed that DEC had a warehouse full of the whatever was used
that they needed to shift :-)
Antonio