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> Yeah... Think Sun2 systems....
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/nd.html

Though it wasn't just for booting in the old days.  On a diskless
workstation, your whole filesystem would be on nd.  And it was a real
mistake to mount a writable partition on two machines, but nothing
stopped you doing it.

-- Richard