[detourdog]

Pretty sure diskless was an option for NeXT. Everything was configured in NetInfo where I think a remember a boot file location setting.

[dragonwriter]

The NeXTcube and NeXTstation did not come in diskless configs.

Diskless may have been an option when NeXT software was detached from NeXT hardware, though.

[detourdog]

I understand that couldn't be purchased without a disk but I kind of remembering booting cubes and slabs from a network file. This was probably 5 years after dropping hardware.

[icedchai]

I did find mention of it in the docs! Perhaps it was supported, they just never shipped systems in that configuration.

[detourdog]

It’s also part of the directions for running multiple motherboards in a single cube.

https://wiki.preterhuman.net/NeXTcube_running_68030_and_6804...