6 Aug
2015
6 Aug
'15
8:27 a.m.
Lots of machines have had console processors that were required for the
machine to run. The PDP-10 had a PDP-11 console processor. The Amdahl
470 had a DG Nova for a console processor, etc. etc.
On 8/6/2015 8:16 AM, geneb wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Marc Verdiell wrote:
Wow. I'll never complain again that it takes
too long to boot Windows...
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?
g.