6 Aug
2015
6 Aug
'15
7:10 a.m.
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, 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? ;)
I'll rate that as "Midly Plausible". :)
Not the only one though, ISTR the 11/780 used a 11/03
to boot?
I guess I just don't understand WHY. Wouldn't it be more economical (both
from a manufacturing and sales standpoint) to design a
mini or mainframe
that could boot with nothing more than a dumb terminal as a
system
console?
g.
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