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I think alpha was also the first non-x86 architecture that Linux was ported to, in the mid 1990s.
by asveikau 7y ago
I think alpha was also the first non-x86 architecture that Linux was ported to, in the mid 1990s.
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- gpderetta 7y agoLinus was a big fan of alpha.
- asveikau 7y agoYeah, I remember writings and interviews from that time period, where he spoke and wrote well on the subject. Can't say I understand very well what was going on in his mind, but somehow I got the impression that some of that was not totally specific to alpha in particular, but that alpha represented non-x86 at large, and he was excited and enthusiastic to tackle the technical problem of making the kernel portable. And certainly it paid dividends; eg. linux on ARM is running on billions of devices today, and that surely would have been more work had they not decided to make the kernel portable in the first few years of its history.