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Date: Fri,  3 Jun 2005 10:43:34 -0600
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 on the Cell...
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On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Dave Eckhardt wrote:

> One thing to be aware of:  PearPC doesn't (at least as of early spring)
> really implement OpenFirmware.  When (e.g.) MacOS tries to run a piece
> of forth code, PearPC does switch(strlen(code)) to figure out which
> hard-coded mock-up to invoke.

what a plus. Skip that OF stuff and run it in the OS. This is cool. I'll 
have to try to take a look at that -- is that support stuff available in 
source form?

Bios'es are for booting, not normal operation :-)

ron