Subj : Re: Day to day uses for retro computers
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Spectre
Date : Tue Aug 08 2023 05:14:00

 pF> Pretty sure you'd need a NIC with a boot rom, a share on the OS/2 server
 pF> that held the DOS binaries, and another share to act as the c: drive.

If'n I recall right, the boot roms are rather specific to what you want to
boot from server wise... I had a few cards with bootroms but never any idea
what said roms were looking for, and definitely no server which would''ve
been able to serve them.

I ended up with a few systems that just had a boot floppy, and mounted
everything else. That worked fine until you need to many boot time drivers.
The other scenario I had NetwareLite being peer to peer was using every
connected system as a file server, must've had some 6-8 MFM drives online at
that point, and either shifting the BBS out to something weird like F: across
each client. Or substing the local drive out to where each other system saw
it and mounting the remote drive over C: It got a bit convoluted.

Spec


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