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Re: My 2 cents on bootstrap loaders.


On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Eddie Matejowsky wrote:

> There has been a bit of talk here about putting a bootstrap loader into the
> f21 on chip rom. I'm crossing my fingers really hard that this happens. 

In http://www.dnai.com/~jfox/f21net.html  we read:

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At power-up, the processor is off, registers undefined. Setting sinking
receive will allow a message that sets a unique port address. A future
chip might power-up with receive on and default SOM, EOM and Address. This
would permit booting from the net.
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I think this solves the problem.

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