Reading some docs from MIT during that era, one can notice instructions that required use of multiple different machines, and how pervasive transparent network

Reading some docs from MIT during that era, one can notice instructions that required use of multiple different machines, and how pervasive transparent network filesystem access was involved in that. For example, to build a dial-in server using cheap PDP-11, essentially a way for mid-1980s students to connect a bunch of random PCs they might have to MIT's network, involved building code using at least PDP-10 and Lisp Machines - PDP-10 to run PDP-11 assembler and linker, and then Lisp Machine because several of them had permanently attached EEPROM programmers. The burned EEPROM would then be used as ROM for a common cheap PDP-11 cpu board combined with Interlan Ethernet board, and the ROM would download the remaining OS code over network. https://github.com/PDP-10/its/tree/master/src/mits_s https://github.com/PDP-10/its/tree/master/src/mits_s