From: Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Question about BSD disklabel history
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 15:37:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57c26b28-af60-689b-c315-828d6561d178@bitsavers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231231230615.GE19322@mcvoy.com>
On 12/31/23 3:06 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> OpenFirmware is Mitch Bradley's baby. I believe it ran on 68k Suns,
> there was some sort of boot prom there. I mostly used it on SPARC.
It was developed for SPARC and never ran on Sun-3's.
The point of it was to be processor independent.
I was involved in bringing it up on Power Macs. It was
championed by Ron Hochsprung there, who is also a
FORTH fan.
In theory, you should have been able to use PCI expansion
cards at boot time across vendors by using it, but in practice that didn't
happen because very few vendors ever bothered to support
anything in their BIOS ROMs other than the PC.
And when Apple went with x86 they used the PC's way of the
world, like everyone else.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-31 23:37 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 [this message]
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
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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