Slightly OT: Sun Ultra 5 Keyboard

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Fri Jun 25 10:40:53 CDT 2010


On 6/25/10, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> On 6/25/10 9:57 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> ...  Adaptec PCI SCSI card that should just drop in...
>> *might*...  have to find a SPARC boot ROM...
>
>   Not a "SPARC ROM", but a standard OpenBoot ROM.  They are
> platform-independent.

Oh?  So an Adaptec card with an OpenBoot ROM would work in either,
say, a SPARC machine or a PCI-equipped Apple (like one of the G3
machines)?  Is it really that "independent"?  If so, that'd be cool.

-ethan



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