19 Sep
2023
19 Sep
'23
8:49 a.m.
On 2023-09-19 11:45, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
DEC actually provided lots of support to Linux. Very early on there were ports of a 64 bit version of Linux to the Alpha processors. There was also a tiny variant that was the boot bios. 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.