BTW I love your little terminal room there ... these things are on the fantasy list for me right next to the LISP Machine and TOAD-1, LOL. I wonder if it runs MTS? :O At least I've got Hercules :O
Best, Sean On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Sean Caron <sca...@umich.edu> wrote: > And so it remains today; most servers sold for data center applications > include a little service processor ... I've found it's usually a little > embedded ARM or PPC ... that you can use for remote console, remote power > control, etc. Although these are not required to bootstrap the system, of > course. > > If you think the MP3000 is a slow booter, we just got some new 4U machines > in where I work; 1.5TB RAM; those things take almost 20 minutes to POST - > no joke! > > Best, > > Sean > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote: > >> On 08/06/2015 07:33 AM, Al Kossow wrote: >> >> Main processor microcode is in RAM. Putting microcode in ram and having >>> a small computer load it was actually pretty common in the 70's and 80's >>> in larger systems since then you didn't have to manage the hassle of >>> patching microcode in ROM. >>> >>> Apple ended up putting a small TI microcontroller in the G5 because it >>> also couldn't boot on its own. There was a bunch of volatile state you >>> had to set up before it would fetch its first instruction. >>> >> >> And really big iron almost always had some sort of maintenance control >> processor--some with their own mass storage. Have a separate, simpler >> processor handle the management of a larger one made a lot of sense, >> particularly when it came to diagnostic activity. >> >> Think Cray, CDC,... >> >> --Chuck >> >> >
