Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!necntc!dandelion!ulowell!page From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Autoboot (was Mac ][ bashing, a sport we grow tired of) Message-ID: <8505@swan.ulowell.edu> Date: 9 Aug 88 14:04:20 GMT References: <5391@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 19 Andy Finkel: >(we don't boot from printers, either) richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton): >I have this PostSctript printer sitting here, 2+MB ram, 68000 ... So put in a boot ROM, eh? ;-) Maybe CBM will poll the parallel port in 1.4. Hmmm, if they don't in 1.3, that means you can't autoboot the Microbotics drive, right? Isn't it on the parallel port? So poll the serial port in 1.3; maybe I can have my MIDI devices autoboot some MusicOS into the Amiga. :-) I have this clock with battery-backed RAM sitting on my serial port... ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page "What a wonder is USENET; such wholesale production of conjecture from such a trifling investment in fact." -- Carl S. Gutekunst