Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 10:01:30 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Experience with Network Computers ? Message-ID: <338B136A.2DDA173E@whistle.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970525235320.7013B-100000@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > I've been wondering about those NCs that everyone is talking about. It > > is said they don't come with an OS, and that you need a server. Could > > this server be a FreeBSD box? How do they load the OS, bootp or an > > unstandard service? > > They come with a lot of rom, or a small disk that is responcible for > starting things up possibly they will down load the OS after initializing > the NIC or it will all be in ROM. I don't trust NCs unless they are used > by untrained computer users as the limitations imposed on them to regular > users is too much, on the other hand they would keep inexperianced people > from fubar'ing everything. I've heard that the OS on NCs is NetBSD.. might just be a rumour though.. julian
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