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		pera on Nov 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf] Yes! I wish more people knew how cool and powerful OpenBoot was, it even had an interactive debugger that included a Forth decompiler. I spent so much time playing with it years ago on my old SPARCstation... I would love to see something like that included in some new SBC :)

coling on Nov 18, 2017 [–]

I agree. It was very empowering to be able to hit stop-a and get a backtrace with the kernel, user code, etc.

tinus_hn on Nov 19, 2017 | [–]

Also so interesting to disconnect your terminal and see your server hang until someone tells it to continue

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