On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Kevin Ogden wrote:

> From what people have been telling me, the PCI PowerMacs use proprietary
> Apple FunkyOpenFirmware.

Apple has documented their OpenFirmware implimentation to a certain
extent in the following three technotes:

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1061.html
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1062.html
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1044.html

> PowerMacs (and 68k's) were only designed to boot MacOS which makes booting
> another OS a real pain.

I think its more a documentation issue, since Apple supported booting A/UX
as well as MacOS on much of its 68k hardware for years.

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Nathan Raymond
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