The Default Mode

The default mode in early OpenBoot systems is the Restricted Monitor. This was done mainly to provide a default look and feel similar to pre-OpenBoot systems.

The SPARCserver(TM) 690 system was the first to have the Forth Monitor as the default mode. All systems introduced thereafter also default to this mode. For such systems, the Restricted Monitor's only real function is to support system security. (Chapter 3, Setting Configuration Parameters, discusses system security.)

If you want to leave the Forth Monitor and get into the Restricted Monitor, type:

ok old-mode