Open Firmware (OF) is a *(VM) centered around building and maintaining a 
portable boot interface across several architectures. It is an IEEE 
(1275-1994) standard supported by several major companies (IBM, Sun, 
Apple).

It also includes a dialect of _(Forth).

<ul class="links">
  <li>_("Open Firmware Home Page"|http://www.openfirmware.org/).</li>
  <li>_("FirmWorks"|http://www.firmworks.com/home.htm) where OF was 
  developed.</li>
  <li>An _("overview"|http://www.firmworks.com/www/ofw.htm).</li>
  <li>_("OpenBIOS"|http://www.freiburg.linux.de/openbios/) will be a 
  free portable OF implementation.</li>
  <li>_("Apple Open Firmware Home Page"|http://bootrom.apple.com/).</li>
</ul>
