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to: CRAIG STEELE
from: JERRY SCHWARTZ
date: 1997-12-04 20:39:00
subject: Diskless workstation.

[Dec 03, 97 - 07:23] Craig Steele of 1:104/737 wrote to Jerry Schwartz:
JS>>If the workstation is designed for it, this should work.  It
JS>>has to have a special boot ROM to boot off the network, and
JS>>would probably come with the stuff the server needs.
CS> Thanks.  What I was trying to find out was if someone had already done 
this 
CS> and could give me basic instructions on how to do it.  OTOH, the price 
CS> difference between this and a 1.2GB hard drive is so small it would 
CS> probably be easier to just install the hard drive. :-}
Let me make this more plain: the machine has to be designed (manufactured) to 
do this.  My company made one, for a brief period.
Jerry Schwartz
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