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System and method for remote program load
James S. Irwin,Robert A. Johnson,Ira A. Klein +2 more
- 31 Dec 1992
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TL;DR: In this article, an apparatus and method for retrieving and sending the bootstrap loader and the DOS code from disk storage on a file server in a network to a workstation in the network during the boot process of the workstation where there are one or more file servers in network and where the file servers may be different types of computer systems including mainframe computers.
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Abstract: An apparatus and method for retrieving and sending the bootstrap loader and the DOS code from disk storage on a file server in a network to a workstation in the network during the boot process of the workstation where there are one or more file servers in the network and where the file servers may be different types of computer systems including mainframe computers.
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