Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ndsuvax!ncreed
From: ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (Walter Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Autoboot
Message-ID: <1098@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 88 18:07:02 GMT
References: <5391@gryphon.CTS.COM> <8505@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (Walter Reed)
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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(Bob Page) writes:
)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...
Wait! don't stop there...  How about booting off the keyboard?  Then you
could type in the bootcode in hex...  That one clock that goes between the
keyboard and the amiga has some ram in it too... :-)  Then there is
the game ports -- WHAT?  you won't support booting off the game ports?
Damn, and I have this mouse with 1 meg of ram too :-) :-)



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