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Re: Where can I find a comprehensive manual for the openfirmware of Mac?
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Re: Where can I find a comprehensive manual for the openfirmware of Mac?


  • Subject: Re: Where can I find a comprehensive manual for the openfirmware of Mac?
  • From: Andre-John Mas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:34:41 -0400


On 25-Jun-07, at 14:15 , Garth Cummings wrote:

Open Firmware is no longer used on Apple products. As part of the transition to Intel processors, recent systems use EFI to support booting.

Just FYI it should be noted that EFI is the successor to BIOS in the PC world, and is the replacement put together by Intel. In case you are interested:

http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/

Andre


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 >Where can I find a comprehensive manual for the openfirmware of Mac? (From: "Calvin (Yu-Hui) Liu" <email@hidden>)
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