The following system prompts are used in ALOM Online Help.
| Type of Prompt | Prompt |
| C shell | machine-name% |
| C shell superuser | machine-name# |
| Bourne and Korn shells | $ |
| Bourne and Korn shell superuser | # |
| ALOM system controller | sc> |
| OpenBoot PROM firmware | ok |
Basic UNIX commands and procedures