Fascinating work. The ARC std https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(specification) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(specification) was used to boot the Dec Alph

Fascinating work. The ARC std https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(specification) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(specification) was used to boot the Dec Alpha Windows machines, along w/ MIPS, etc. Anyone know of other open source variants of that in the wild? At intel in 1998 the original efi spec was modeled on & inspired by Arc. The Intel boot initiative (IBI) in fact looked mostly like Arc. EFI (now UEFI) is sort of Arc + installable GUID-based interfaces (aka protocols) a la MS COM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model. Page 8 of https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/research/2011-vol15-iss-1-intel-technology-journal.pdf https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents... recounts some of those travails.