[WinMac] Re: OS X Note


Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 10:34:34 -0400


        Many PC's can already do this as well, with the boot order choice set in
the BIOS. Every PPro (& up) IBM PC & server that has SurePath BIOS, as well
as every Intel M/B that has built-in ethernet has this feature.

        I just wish Win2k Server had the ability to remote boot iMacs & ROMless
G3/G4 boxes. As I've always maintained, the iMac is a nice corporate
desktop **as long as it is backed up by a heavy-duty server & Internet
connection.**

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 09:54 AM 9/23/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Check this out -
>
>We run two fairly large studios in an advertising agency, and have multiple
>servers running, including NT, ASIP & OS X. A user experiencing a heavy
crash
>on her B&W G3. Next thing she did was reboot and pray. Oddly, the machine
>booted off of the OS X server. Why? Her internal drive failed and the next
>available drive was the OS X server. It just so happens the OS X server
is set
>up to do Mac manager, so
>she could have logged in as herself and continued working, with all of her
>applications ready to go. So, with limited or no technical support in the
late
>evenings, this may be a cool option for crashed machines.
>
>--------------------------------------
>Chris Schobert
>Manager, Creative Technologies
>FCB
>New York

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