[macosx-unix] Apple Intel Servers?

[Pete Wright]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:04:56PM -0500, Isaac Levy wrote:
> Hey Okan, All,
> 
> An officially relevant cross-post, (are they outlawed alltogether?)
> 
> Last night at NYCBUG Okan was asking me about Intel Apple stuff, and  
> weather or not it uses Open Firmware.
> 
> --
> I checked today to try to answer your question about Open Firmware on  
> upcoming Intel Apple Servers, and there is no such thing as an Intel  
> Apple Server (yet?).
> 
> With that,
> 
> http://appleintelfaq.com/#17
> 
> "Shipping Intel-based Macintosh computers use Intel's new Extensible  
> Firmware Interface (EFI)[17.1]."
> 
> Suck.  Or mabye not- it's just new.
> I'll miss Open Firmware, it's easy and well documented, it's Cisco- 
> admin-friendly (it came from Sun back in the day), it's all FORTH  
> syntax based.
> 

i vaugly remember reading about how the mac/intel firmware may be coming
from the itanium family.  i've never used itanium, or an intel based mac
for that matter, but that was the impression i got from a freebsd dev a
while back....

-p


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