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Format of .btl files

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From: M Hill
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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From: markhill@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (M Hill)
Subject: Format of .btl files
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:46:32 GMT
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