4 Jan
2012
4 Jan
'12
7:19 p.m.
ROFL...installed in hundreds of thousands, if not milliins of machines running all over
the world. Nearly all PPC-based Macs, all Suns (including current ones I think) past the
Sun4c family, all reasonably modern RS6000s, what else...it was an IEEE standard for a
long time, #1275.
-Dave
Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 4 Jan 2012 at 20:43, Toby Thain wrote:
That was implemented as
http://www.openfirmware.org/ (found in Suns,
Macs, etc).
The format is Fcode; it's actually a brilliant idea that of course was
of more pressing importance when the hardware market was actually
heterogeneous.
Finding anything about this is a little difficult--lots of 404s, etc.
when trying to search.
What was the last product that used Open Firmware? Most of this
stuff seems to be from the mid '90s.
--Chuck