I really enjoyed (and still) Open Firmware which was used by Apple on the
PowerPC macintosh (starting from the first PCI models up to the latest G5)
It is a nice environment, with all the capabilities of UEFI with even more as
it come for free and directly with a Forth interpreter (basically
On 31/08/18 23:16, Andrew Udvare wrote:
> On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>
>> This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading,
>> wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have
>> been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations,
On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading,
> wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have
> been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations, Alpha's SPARCs etc etc
> booted up.
Try
Hi all,
A bit of an off topic question , mainly aimed at those who, shall we
say, been there and done that.
It is very common to find webpages stating that the BIOS that is in a
PC is a mess with respect to the way things boot, device discovery etc.
Looking back through the fog
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