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| | Hardware Independent Boot Code: Open Firmware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Open Firmware, then called Open Boot, prevented the nightmare by allowing one version of the Boot Rom to run on any configuration of hardware and software, even supporting boot-time operations on third-party plug-in cards. |
 | | In the rest of this web page, we will assume that Open Firmware is being used for such a "typical installation", although there are cases when you might want to use only parts of Open Firmware, such as only a Device Interface, for "non-typical" applications. |
 | | Open firmware makes no restrictions on how the operating system will eventually use this named data, except for reserving certain names to have certain meanings: the "name" property, for example, is always the node name. |
| www.openfirmware.org /1275/mejohnson (2351 words) |
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