>I'd think that you wouldn't notice when looking at the strings passed in
>the prom's data structures from within the kernel or boot program (modulo
>prom bugs..).

The problem that requires `sunmon-compat?' to be turned off is that
the `Forth interpret' PROM vector only works correctly when in `new'
mode.  The RCONSOLE code uses (used?) this to share the cursor
position with the PROM.

Chris