[geeks] OF in a PC

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 14:14:10 (-0500), R. Lonstein wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] OF in a PC
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:00:12AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > Nope, not even close in my opinion -- OpenBIOS is just some dudes
> > writing yet another incarnation of the IBM PC BIOS, with the same stupid
> > ancient APIs and everything.  Sure they might eventually get closer to
> 	[snip]
> 
>  OpenBIOS will be a free portable firmware implementation. The goal is
>  to implement a 100% IEEE 1275-1994 (Referred to as Open Firmware)
>  compliant firmware.
> 
> They claim to be aiming at OpenFirmware.

Wow!  OK, well that's new since I last looked at their proposals (which
was a _long_ time ago in Internet Years -- 1998 :-).

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