Re: Format of .btl files

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From: Bob Wipfel
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:56

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In article <1993Jan22.114632.24686@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, 
markhill@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (M Hill) writes:

|> 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.

Yes and yes.

(What's the project Mark?)

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