1 Jan
2024
1 Jan
'24
5:37 a.m.
At 2023-12-31T15:06:15-0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 04:46:49PM -0600, G. Branden
Robinson wrote:
At 2023-12-31T18:08:36-0500, Phil Budne wrote:
At 2023-12-31T16:31:00-0500, Clem Cole wrote:
OpenFirmware is Mitch Bradley's baby. I believe it ran on 68k Suns,
there was some sort of boot prom there. But the key is that it ran on 68K's.
I don't think that's the case. OF had its origin in Sun OpenBoot PROM (OBP), which,
ISTR, first
appeared in the SPARCstation 1 (sun4c kernel arch) along with SBus.
Earlier (VME) based SPARC (sun4 kernel arch) systems had only a Sun-3
like boot PROM (single letter commands, no Forth).
Thanks for the clarifications, gentlemen. My first Sun experience was a
SPARC IPC--a bunch of them, actually, in a "freshman engineering lab"...
Regards,
Branden