From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 27 10:25:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA23382 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 May 1997 10:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA23376 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 10:25:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA09593; Tue, 27 May 1997 10:02:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd009591; Tue May 27 17:02:09 1997 Message-ID: <338B136A.2DDA173E@whistle.com> Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 10:01:30 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein CC: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Experience with Network Computers ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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