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Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf] by pera on Saturday November 18, 2017 @03:23PM (#15730480)
Yes! I wish more people knew how cool and powerful OpenBoot was, it even had an interactive debugger that included a Forth decompiler. I spent so much time playing with it years ago on my old SPARCstation... I would love to see something like that included in some new SBC :)
Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf] by coling on Saturday November 18, 2017 @03:54PM (#15730634)
I agree. It was very empowering to be able to hit stop-a and get a backtrace with the kernel, user code, etc.
Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf] by tinus_hn on Sunday November 19, 2017 @03:47AM (#15732950)
Also so interesting to disconnect your terminal and see your server hang until someone tells it to continue