OpenBoot Firmware was pioneered by Sun Microsystems as a solution to 
the problem of devices (e.g. PCI cards, Sbus cards) going to into 
systems with totally different CPUs (e.g. mc68020, SPARC, PowerPC) 
and reconciling that with writing only one driver for the PROMs on 
the cards. The scheme is that you write the driver in an interpreted 
language, and the CPU motherboard has local interpreter 
implementation, specific  to the CPU. Voila!

This was standardized as IEEE 1275.

Now the evil part: the interpreted language?

Forth.

	good goal, bad plan,

	Erik <fair@clock.org>