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- From: raw@dogmatix.inmos.co.uk (Bob Wipfel)
- Subject: Re: Format of .btl files
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.125653.1781@titan.inmos.co.uk>
- Sender: raw@dogmatix (Bob Wipfel)
- Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
- References: <1993Jan22.114632.24686@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:56:53 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.114632.24686@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>,
- markhill@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (M Hill) writes:
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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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- Yes and yes.
-
- (What's the project Mark?)
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