At 22:10 -0700 1999-05-12, Matt Porter wrote:
The non-mac CHRP boards (LongTrails etc.) also use OF I believe. Are their OF's so broken that they don't work properly as well? Perhaps APUS and PReP (and I'm talking PPCBUG firmware not OF systems) are the only ones we need to worry about. Interestingly enough, Motorola dropped OF because it was so damn buggy.
No, CHRP boards tend to have good OF.Most of the Macs had such broken OF because Apple did not rely on it for booting Mac OS (it only had to be enough to boot up and hand control to the Mac ROM).
In the "new world" architecture introduced with the iMac, Apple finally began relying on OF to boot Mac OS, thus it has to be stable.
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