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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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To: Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>
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Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] x86 PROM project
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Erik Mouw wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:29:47PM -0600, Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
> > What does everybody think of the idea of trying to write a RISC PROM-like
> > BIOS for the x86 architecture?
> > 
> > I've been tossing the idea around in my head for a while, and after I got
> > my first SGI I realized that something like this would be fairly useful.
> > Basically, I'm wondering if anybody is already doing something like this
> > (not linuxBIOS, though the code for that could be a useful base).  Thanks.
> 
> Have a look at OpenBIOS:
> 
>   http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/
> 
> The project wants to create an IEEE 1275-1994 compliant firmware, like
> used by SUN (for example).
> 

and apple && ibm
> 

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