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having fun with PRAM
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micha schraven
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Mar 11, 2001, 02:53 PM
 
when I zap my PRAM while operating my powerbook, a little commandprompt shows up. what can I type here. I can't make anything up on this.

"cwin" doesn't work
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Cipher13
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Mar 12, 2001, 01:09 AM
 
Thats the Open Firmware screen.
Do you just want to get back to the MacOS? Type Mac Boot...

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olePigeon
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Mar 22, 2001, 02:08 AM
 

If you really wanted to have fun, you can make it so when you DO type "cwin" it'll boot into Mac.
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Mar 25, 2001, 03:30 AM
 
Depending on the powerbook this might not be OpenFirmware at all. He might be talking about the command interupt.
     
   
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