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OpenFirmware: “kudos”

While searching again for some hints about Apple OpenFirmware’s startup sound settings, I found an easter-egg page about a fancy second chime. I tired the proposed combination , but instead the chime, just the OpenFirmware popped up. This was not new to me, in the “Start menu” I have bound “o” to it :)

Anyway, while being there, looked again at the words available, just by writing the command “words”.

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Here’s a “shot” (people usually like fancy screenshots):

Apple PowerBook6,3 4.7.7f0 BootROM built on 10/21/03 at 11:09:00
Copyright 1994-2003 Appel Computer, Inc.
All Rights Reserved

Welcome to Open Firmware, the system time and date is: 10:37:04 10/27/2005 The battery capacity is: 23 percent

To continue booting, type “mac-boot” and press return.
To shut down, type “shut-down” and press return.

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Some interesting ones: words, kudos, invert-screen, oem-logo?, oem-banner?

Here’s the kudos screen:

1 > kudos

This BootROM is brought to you by:

Hardware Init: Derrick Carty, Al Kossow, Bob Bradley, Camerom Esfahani

Open Firmware: Dave Carlton, Martin Gross, John Hall Ron Hochsprung, Jim Huffman, Esmond Lewis Dennis Ruffer

Diagnostics: Larry Lam, Todd Rudin, David Zheng Bill Weigel ok
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Good luck to it, and try not to kill your OF. Maybe first visit a Forth site, the language in which OF is written. Also OpenFirmware on Wikipedia, and it’s own site.

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