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Re:Rappel: A REPL for x86, amd64, and armv7 by bogomipz on Friday March 04, 2016 @10:23PM (#11228283)
On the old Sun gear if you sent a break signal over serial you wold interrupt the OS sure and be at the ROM monitor but you couldn't "resume" the OS, you could boot back up to single user or run level 3 but all of your previous state would be gone of course. Is that was you are referring to? I don't remember a disassembler being available from the prom monitor I do remember there a FORTH(sp?) interpreter though. Could you elaborate?
Re:Rappel: A REPL for x86, amd64, and armv7 by drudru11 on Friday March 04, 2016 @10:54PM (#11228337)
There was a command to resume the OS after a break.

You just hit 'c' then enter.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/misc...

Re:Rappel: A REPL for x86, amd64, and armv7 by farva on Friday March 04, 2016 @10:29PM (#11228295)
The OpenFirmware system used on old Macintosh and Sun machines used an extended FORTH for the bootstrapping and hardware management. FreeBSD's bootloader has a similar system as well.