port-mac68k: Re: why we need MacOS to boot NetBSD? (FAQ)

Subject: Re: why we need MacOS to boot NetBSD? (FAQ)
To: Don Woodward <dbwoodw@earthlink.net>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/20/2003 12:03:45

At 3:40 Uhr -0500 20.3.2003, Don Woodward wrote:
>The Mac ROMS (at least the older ones) are non-standard between models
>unlike the PC BIOS which is set in stone in each PC

Not quite. In both cases there are documented interfaces. The basic
hardware, on the other hand, is much more standardized on peecees than on
Macintoshes.

	hauke

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