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- From: markhill@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (M Hill)
- Subject: Format of .btl files
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.114632.24686@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:46:32 GMT
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- I'm doing a project with transputers, and would like to know the answer
- to the following question.
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- When the iserver boots a transputer network with a .btl file, is the
- iserver just sequentially picking up bytes from the file and throwing
- them at the C011? This would imply that the .btl file had all the necessary
- bootstrap code for the whole network inside it, in addition to the
- program code that will eventually run on each processor on the network.
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- The alternative is that the iserver is not that dumb - it places booting
- code on the root transputer and interacts with it - instead of blindly
- dumping stuff down the link.
-
- Any pointers?
-
- Mark
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-