"New" prompt on Sun box

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Thu Mar 30 13:07:07 2000

On March 29, Technoid_at_cheta.net wrote:
> I have tried the 'n' command and it says it is not a command. If I enter
> "new" it responds "cpu cache enabled" which is not what I wanted at all.
> Is it possible this Sparcstation 330 (sparc 4/300) does not have the 'new'
> prompt at all? --

  Nope...of all the models in the sun4/xxx family, only the 4/6xx has
OpenFirmware. The 4/1xx, 4/2xx, 4/3xx, and 4/4xx have sun3-style "old
mode" only.

                  -Dave McGuire
Received on Thu Mar 30 2000 - 13:07:07 BST