As I think back on it It was Decus 1995 Washington DC not 1994 and Maddog was there demonstrating Linux >-----Original Message----- >From: axp-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:axp-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On >Behalf Of William H. Magill >Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 2:26 PM >To: Linux on Alpha processors >Subject: Re: first Linux port > > >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. > > >T.T.F.N. >William H. Magill ># Beige G3 [Rev A motherboard - 300 MHz 768 Meg] OS X 10.2.8 ># Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.6 ># PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg] Tru64 5.1a ># XP1000 [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 ># XP1000 [Alpha 21264-A (EV 6.7) - 384 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 >magill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >magill@xxxxxxx >magill@xxxxxxx >whmagill@xxxxxxxxx > > >_______________________________________________ >axp-list mailing list >axp-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list >