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Open firmware

Open firmware is a hardware-independent firmware: computer software which loads the operating system. It was developed by Sun Microsystems, and is used in modern Apple Macintosh computers.

It is described by IEEE standard IEEE-1275

External Links

http://playground.sun.com/1275/mejohnson/
http://www.firmworks.com

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