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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:16:31 -0800
From:      "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Freeloading FreeBSD for Free -- NOT!
Message-ID:  <19971215191631.53874@relay.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215221517.5010A-100000@quark.ChrisBowman.com>; from Christopher R. Bowman on Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 10:18:07PM -0500
References:  <19971215172944.51352@relay.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215221517.5010A-100000@quark.ChrisBowman.com>

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> I would suggest that as a first step we should compile a list of documents
> pointers and URLs to information on SUN hardware

Good suggestion.

> do they use open firmware, what does the prom include, 

OpenBoot is the bootloader on Sun workstations.  There are some newer
Sparcs on a card, that I have no idea about.

Sun has published a lot of documentation on it.  OpenBoot is roughly
Forth and FWIK quite programmable.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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