Editing Diskless node (section)

== Diskless Windows nodes ==

Windows 3.x and Windows 95 OSR1<ref name="microsoft2">{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/win95/rk04_svr.mspx|title=Windows 95: Server-Based Setup for Windows 95|website=[[Microsoft TechNet]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061124173505fw_/http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/win95/rk04_svr.mspx|archive-date=2006-11-24}}</ref> supported Remote Boot operations, from [[NetWare]] servers,<ref name="H17007Index">{{cite web|url=http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/index.aspx#.Uy33Sn18hpg|title=HP Networking: switches, routers, wired, wireless, HP TippingPoint Security – HP®|publisher=h17007.www1.hp.com|access-date=22 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322120942/http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/index.aspx#.Uy19mS-l1c8|archive-date=22 March 2014}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=May 2022}} [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] NT Servers<ref name="microsoft3">{{cite web|url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158278|title=Explanation of How Windows NT Server 4.0 Remoteboot Works|publisher=support.microsoft.com|access-date=2014-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323014635/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158278|archive-date=2014-03-23}}</ref> and even DEC [[Pathworks]] servers.<ref name="microsoft4">{{cite web|url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/82654|title=DEC Pathworks Remote Boot Workstations Under Windows 3.1|publisher=support.microsoft.com|access-date=2014-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323002413/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/82654|archive-date=2014-03-23}}</ref>

Third party software vendors such as Qualystem (acquired by [[Neoware]]), LanWorks (acquired by [[3Com]]), Ardence (acquired by [[Citrix Systems]]), APCT<ref name="apct">{{cite web|url=http://www.apct.net/en/pd_absolutboot.html|title=AbsolutBoot|website=APCT - Advanced PC Technologies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010222055859/http://www.apct.net/en/pd_absolutboot.html|archive-date=2001-02-22}}</ref> and Xtreamining Technology<ref name="vhdsoft"/> have developed and marketed software products aimed to remote-boot newer versions of the [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] product line: Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 were supported by Qualystem and Lanworks, Windows NT was supported by APCT and Ardence (called VenturCom at that time), and Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7 are supported by [[Hewlett-Packard]] (which acquired [[Neoware]] which had previously acquired Qualystem) and Citrix Systems (which acquired [[Ardence]]).