[rescue] Compaq Proliant 8000

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Thu Apr 29 15:27:41 CDT 2004


On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 04:23:25PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2004, at 3:48 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> >>>Why didn't that ever take off?
> >>
> >>  It did.  It's tremendously popular on modern systems.  PCs, however,
> >>are not modern systems.
> >
> >Forth BIOS on PCI cards has taken off?
> >
> >System BIOS, yes, but every PCI card I've had seems to have a 
> >CPU/system
> >specific BIOS.
> 
>   I was actually talking about system firmware.

Am I mistaken then in thinking that the PCI cards for Suns and recent
Apples have forth code in them for bootup?



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