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Article #1889Format of .btl files
From: M Hill
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:46
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:46
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I'm doing a project with transputers, and would like to know the answer to the following question. 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. 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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