On Fri, 3 May 1996 17:54:24 +1000 (EST) 
 David Conran <lucifer@dstc.edu.au> wrote:

 > Hmmm ... does this mean it can boot netbsd .. I seem to remember reading
 > something that said it needed the open-mode?

As far as I can tell, when support for the 4/{1,2,3}00 was added, the 
dependency on open-mode went away.  You can certainly boot a sun4 from 
the old monitor (I boot my 4/260 from it all the time :-), and I think I 
even tried booting an ss1 from the old-style command prompt and succeeded 
... been a while; I could be mistaken.

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