9 Mar
1999
9 Mar
'99
11:35 a.m.
At 07:55 AM 3/9/99 -0700, emanuel stiebler wrote:
I have all the controllers/rx50 ...
I never used it. ESDI disks are easy to get, more capacity, ....
I know, I've got a nice ESDI controller.
A TK50 is cheap, and you can boot from.
And the source is ... ?
(I wrote:
... I dislike computers that have a fairly high
infrastructure overhead before you can get them running.
?!?!?!?!
Sorry, i have 2-3 uVax here, all of them have only cpu/mem/ethernet. All of
them are working fine. "infrastructure overhead" ????
In order to use a diskless uVax you need a MOP server, an ethernet, and a
disk image stored on the network. That is "relatively high overhead". In
order to use a PDP-8 you don't need anything but the computer that is "zero
overhead."
My point was that at some point I will pass this computer on to another
caretaker and that person may need to re-format, reboot, re-install, etc
and I would like to be able to hand off everything needed to do that.
--Chuck