info-vax (12/22/82)
>From donnelly@BRL Tue Dec 21 21:19:09 1982 Mail-From: ARPANET host BRL rcvd at 21-Dec-82 0706-PST To: info-vax@Sri-Csl Cc: donnelly@BRL Remailed-Date: 21 Dec 1982 1051-PST Remailed-From: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow <Geoff5 at SRI-CSL> Remailed-To: Info-VAX@SRI-CSL: ; Can anyone clarify this point? The Administator's Manual documents the UNIX tape boot load as : >>>s 0 booting the tape from byte zero. The ;login: newsletter of January 1982 (p.10) has the following note; "In the VAX console commands to be used in bootstrapping 's 2' should replace 's 0' to cause the CPU to jup over the register save mask (2 bytes) at the front of the program". ... bob donnelly