> At any rate, I assume the sparc and sun3 ROM drivers are used only for booting,
> even by SunOS, so the more encompassing term "BIOS" isn't really appropriate.
> But the meaning was clear.

I thought that sparcs running SunOS/Solaris used the PROM routines to interact 
with the console hardware. That, at least in my memory, is the reason for the 
console being as slow as it is under Solaris.

Peter