On Tue, 2023/09/19 11:49:09AM -0400, James Knott via talk <[email protected]> 
wrote:
| > 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.

Jon "maddog" Hall is a good man, and he is still actively promoting
Linux and open source.  I think he was recently at Ohio Linuxfest,
and I think is currently in Brazil, doing the same.

John
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