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Sorry, I'm wrong regarding OSX and iOS. OpenFirmware is used at numerous places, but Apple is not one of them.
by JoachimS 11y ago
Sorry, I'm wrong regarding OSX and iOS. OpenFirmware is used at numerous places, but Apple is not one of them.
- technomancy 11y agoApple used it when they were still PowerPC-based. They sadly dropped it with the move to Intel.
- david-given 11y agoYou used to be able to boot up with Command+O+F and get a Forth prompt. (Although I have a hazy recollection that on some models they didn't include a screen terminal, so you couldn't interact with it...)
- rollthehard6 11y agoApple used to use it in the PowerPC days as did Sun - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware http://www.brendangregg.com/Sun/obp.html http://www.brendangregg.com/Sun/obp.html