September 2000
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L1-A BREAK initial system power-on exit from a client program such as the Operating System
The CPU board of a workstation contains one or more EPROMs or EEPROMs. The program that executes from the PROMs is referred to as the monitor. Among other things, the monitor performs system initialization at power-on and provides a user interface.
The monitor of earlier workstations was known as the SunMON monitor and displayed the > as its prompt. See “SunMON PROM Usage” for further details.
Existing workstations use a monitor that is known as the OpenBoot monitor. The OpenBoot monitor typically displays ok as its prompt, but it can display the > prompt under certain circumstances. ...
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