On Mon, 18 May 1998, David Leonard wrote:

> Still, it would be neat if the booter could do bootp and tftp.
> I only wish I could hack at the booter and build it with gcc under bsd!

it'd be neater if we had native boot blocks.  at least one some systems,
this may be a lot easier than was originally thought, but i don't believe
anybody has actually started working on this.