05-16-2023, 10:07 PM
Thanks stevef - that's a nice piece of work - shame to waste that effort on GRUB, of all things.
My first "booter" was MS-DOS using two 3.5 floppys on a WANG PCS2. Intel 8080 ?? There was nothing mega, or giga, in that box !
But we maintained PDP (unix) running our factory machines.
Years later in the LAN-client/server-era, somebody patched-up up a server-based booter. A horrible piece of crap. But we had color-VGA !
That was Etherboot; which led to GRUB. I remember talk of a future product named POOP, POOPA. Sounds suitable, to me.
GRUB is the difference between your PC, my iMAC, my HP laptop, and my iPhone. ...almost forgot, and our Apple door-greeter.
In 2030, which will still be running ?
My first "booter" was MS-DOS using two 3.5 floppys on a WANG PCS2. Intel 8080 ?? There was nothing mega, or giga, in that box !
But we maintained PDP (unix) running our factory machines.
Years later in the LAN-client/server-era, somebody patched-up up a server-based booter. A horrible piece of crap. But we had color-VGA !
That was Etherboot; which led to GRUB. I remember talk of a future product named POOP, POOPA. Sounds suitable, to me.
GRUB is the difference between your PC, my iMAC, my HP laptop, and my iPhone. ...almost forgot, and our Apple door-greeter.
In 2030, which will still be running ?