On Fri, 17 May 2013, Bob Armstrong wrote:
John Wilson wrote:
this is a ridiculous security risk
so that's why MOP had a magic number
Yep, even the DMR has a boot "password", which is just an 8 bit value set
by dip switches on the board, that has to match up with the MOP message.
They DMA a small program into memory
Ah, I was wondering about that, because there aren't any separate boot
ROMs on the DEUNA. I bet the "small program" is just part of the T11 code.
And I'm assuming that this scheme didn't work on any UNIBUS VAXes - only
PDPs.
I'd assume so as well. On a semi-related note, wasn't it not possible to netboot
a UNIBUS VAX with a DEUNA? I seem to recall that from the manual. It required an
intermediate bootloader or something, right?
Bob
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