19 Sep
2023
19 Sep
'23
1:20 p.m.
On Tue, 2023/09/19 11:49:09AM -0400, James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> 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