From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 25 20:59:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA25606 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 20:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA25597 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 20:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA07038; Sun, 25 May 1997 23:59:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 23:59:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Experience with Network Computers ? In-Reply-To: <338919C7.F30@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. Alfred Perlstein perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu