Open Firmware Features

Firmware standardization can reduce system costs by eliminating "reinvention of wheels", providing "off the shelf" sources for firmware, eliminating unnecessary relearning of different firmware systems, reducing the effort of porting operating systems to different machines, and providing a consistent and powerful base set of hardware and software debugging tools. Specific advantages include:

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