From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Question about BSD disklabel history
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:37:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231231233756.jgyx4pzptucv5kav@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231231230615.GE19322@mcvoy.com> <202312312308.3BVN8aQ5052682@ultimate.com>
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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 2023-12-31T16:31:00-0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> > > But the key is that it ran on 68K's.
> >
> > I don't think that's the case.
>
> OpenFirmware is Mitch Bradley's baby. I believe it ran on 68k Suns,
> there was some sort of boot prom there.
At 2023-12-31T18:08:36-0500, Phil Budne wrote:
> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-31 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-31 17:30 [TUHS] " Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-12-31 17:38 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2023-12-31 20:07 ` Warner Losh
2024-01-01 0:13 ` Bakul Shah
2023-12-31 20:27 ` Phil Budne
2023-12-31 21:02 ` Warner Losh
2024-01-01 0:26 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2024-01-01 2:22 ` Warner Losh
2024-01-01 3:24 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-12-31 21:31 ` Clem Cole
2023-12-31 22:07 ` Warner Losh
2024-01-01 16:00 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-02 18:49 ` Warner Losh
2024-01-02 19:30 ` Chet Ramey
2024-01-02 20:07 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-02 19:50 ` Dan Cross
2024-01-02 19:55 ` Jim Capp
2024-01-02 20:11 ` Dan Cross
2024-01-02 20:30 ` Dan Cross
2024-01-02 20:50 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-02 21:04 ` Dan Cross
2023-12-31 22:46 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-12-31 23:06 ` Larry McVoy
2023-12-31 23:37 ` Al Kossow
2023-12-31 23:41 ` Alec Muffett
2024-01-02 20:48 ` Dan Cross
2024-01-02 21:17 ` John Cowan
2024-01-03 3:33 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-01-03 3:57 ` Warner Losh
2024-01-03 4:03 ` Warner Losh
2024-01-03 4:30 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-01-03 5:10 ` Warner Losh
2024-01-03 15:56 ` Dan Cross
2024-01-03 16:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-01-03 16:41 ` Dan Cross
2024-01-04 8:42 ` arnold
2024-01-04 18:26 ` Kevin Bowling
2024-01-03 14:39 ` Dan Cross
2023-12-31 23:08 ` Phil Budne
2023-12-31 23:37 ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2023-12-31 23:59 ` Warner Losh
2023-12-31 23:50 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-01 0:09 ` Al Kossow
2023-12-31 21:55 Norman Wilson
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