Re: first Linux port | |
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:14:30AM -0700, Tom Linden wrote: > Can someone tell me when the first port of Linux to Digital HW ocurred? As far as I know the first Alpha port was done in May 1994 by Jim Paradis from DEC labs in Massachusetts. This was a 32-bit port but pretty quickly this was replaced by a 64-bit version which become "the one". > And I assuming that would have been Alpha. You wonder about MIPS? I do not know what was a timeline on that. > I recall seeing a port at Decus (1994?) That was likely a BLADE release (64-bit) which happened later in 1994. > In fact, I even got a replica NH license plate from John > 'Mad Dog' Hansen. Well, probably Jon 'maddog' Hall (who, among other things got DEC to send a machine to Linus) but other than that ... :-) Michal
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