[rescue] NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP?

Meelis Roos mroos at linux.ee
Wed Aug 13 01:46:34 CDT 2014


> > There were a few attempts at standardisation. For example, SGI's
> > Indigo^2 was built around an industry initiative which I can't remember
> > the name of.
> ARC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_RISC_Computing
> 
> > With the exception of the Indigo^2, it vanished without trace.
> It left traces: All SGI machines from the R4k Indigo / Crimson on used
> the ARCS bootloader derived from ARC. Alphas needed an ARC firmware to
> boot WinNT. (All other OSes for Alphas need the SRM console.)

NT boot and root path syntax in the boot configuration was quite 
identical to that of ARC...

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Meelis Roos (mroos at linux.ee)


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