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Re: Can you boot a IIGS from a Mac w/ IIe card?
- Subject: Re: Can you boot a IIGS from a Mac w/ IIe card?
- From: shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)
- Date: 19 Feb 1995 13:44:56 -0600
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.apple2.comm
- Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
- References: <3i0a24$sda@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3i1dou$18b8@hearst.cac.psu.edu> <3i2hlr$7rc@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>
- Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.sys.apple2:54069 comp.sys.apple2.comm:2974
Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:
: Why not go one better? Wouldn't it be possible to have a loader on a 3.5"
: disk to start up the machine, establish an AppleTalk link with the Mac,
: then load the rest of GS/OS from the remote hard drive? A bit unorthodox,
: perhaps, but this is the Apple ][ world...it CAN be done, even if nobody
: has figured out how just yet ;-)
Well from all accounts, the IIgs' network hardware differs from that of the
workstation card in that not all code is present until the system software is
running. So this makes it a chicken-and-egg situation.
--
Randy Shackelford thank you, drive through
shack@southwind.net