RE: first Linux port

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As I think back on it It was Decus 1995 Washington DC  not 1994 and Maddog
was there demonstrating Linux

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>On 12 Jul, 2006, at 13:54, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>> 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?)
>
>It was done AT the DECUS Symposium, in Memphis as I recall, by Linus
>himself with the help of the Unix SIG.
>
>> 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 ... :-)
>
>Back in those days, DEC was all VMS except for a couple of "oddballs" --
>"maddog" being one on the inside and the rest of the Unix SIG comprising
>the rest.  Jon invited Linus to DECUS to talk about his project and  
>we all
>had lots of fun drinking our way down some river on a paddle wheel, and
>talking about how Unix would one day replace VMS.
>
>Jon then managed to convince DEC marketing folks (those with the budget
>dollars) to provide Linus with one of the first Alpha machines so that
>he could do his porting work on that.
>
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