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by mprovost 1254 days ago
It used to be pretty common (in the late 1980s) to run Sun workstations without hard disks, all booting off an NFS server. But then disks got cheap... I always set up a boot server hosting a bunch of BSD/Linux images so I could install an OS remotely (to a local disk) without running around with a CD or USB stick.
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Early to mid 80s, on Sun stuff! Swap over half-duplex Ethernet sucks though.