On 2023-09-19 10:09, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 10:16:05PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
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No, DEC went to Compaq went to HP where the itanium love finally killed
the Alpha. Not Dell.
DEC actually provided lots of support to Linux.
Very early on there were ports of a 64 bit version of Linux to the Alpha
processors.
There was also a tiny variant that was the boot bios.
Possibly the biggest booster of Linux in DEC was Jon Hall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer)
We had a bunch of Alpha machines and I was sad to see them go.
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