On 2023-09-19 11:45, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
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)
IIRC, the DEC Alpha was the first 64 bit CPU Linux was ported to. There
was an article about that (written by Jon Hall IIRC) in the Linux Journal.
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