>>SS1+ w/ 1.3 ROMs

>After one breaks back to the PROM, any attempt to boot would fail right
>away ... One must do a 'reset' first.

This is a bug (more or less) in the old PROMs; newer PROMs for
the same machines do an implied `reset' after running a kernel.
There are some things a kernel could do to help out old PROMs,
such as shut off device interrupts, but it hardly seems worthwhile...

Chris