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* Book reader mode and page controls: You also need to know about screen rotation to make this work properly.
 
* Book reader mode and page controls: You also need to know about screen rotation to make this work properly.
 
* Keyboard switching key, replacing ×÷ on keyboards for countries and languages using a non-Latin alphabet or other kind of writing system.
 
* Keyboard switching key, replacing ×÷ on keyboards for countries and languages using a non-Latin alphabet or other kind of writing system.
* Open Firmware: At boot time, press and hold the escape key to get into Open Firmware.
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==Open Firmware==
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* At boot time, press and hold the escape key to get into Open Firmware.
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* In the Terminal activity, execute the command
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echo y > /proc/sysrq-trigger
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See [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FORTH FORTH] for a brief introduction to the FORTH programming language, which Open Firmware is written in, plus links to other resources.
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Be careful with OFW. You can seriously mess up or brick your XO with it. You might want to experiment in gForth first.
    
==Subpages==
 
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