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Compared to the PC BIOS, OpenBoot (Open Firmware, IEEE 1275) was quite advanced. Network booting is something that took PCs quite a while to get (PXE), and plat

Compared to the PC BIOS, OpenBoot (Open Firmware, IEEE 1275) was quite advanced. Network booting is something that took PCs quite a while to get (PXE), and platform-independent drivers still don't exist. Apple used the system for quite a while as well.

DonHopkins 6y ago
Mitch Bradley (author of Open Firmware) also developed a version of it for the OLPC: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OFW_FAQ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OFW_FAQ