| 摘要 |
A device for controlling a boot-up process of a computer (20), including a plug-in component (32), which is inserted into a socket on a bus (28) accessible to a CPU (22) of the computer. The component includes a memory (50) which receives a starting address in an address space of the CPU and in which memory one or more software files (60) including an operating system file (62) are stored. During a start-up sequence of the computer, the CPU addresses the starting address and reads the operating system file from the memory, causing the computer to boot as a thin client of a network server (26) to which the computer is coupled, substantially under the control of instructions in the operating system file in the memory. |
