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The first versions weren't. It wasn't until people wanted to port it to the DEC Alpha architecture in 1995 that the changes that they proposed ended up removing
by jhbadger 6y ago
The first versions weren't. It wasn't until people wanted to port it to the DEC Alpha architecture in 1995 that the changes that they proposed ended up removing a lot of the X86 dependencies. That made further ports much easier.
- LukeShu 6y ago> It wasn't until people wanted to port it to the DEC Alpha architecture in 1995 that the changes that they proposed ended up removing a lot of the X86 dependencies. The m68k port started in 1993 when people wanted to run Linux on their Amiga computers, and Linux/m68k was under lively development in 1994, supporting Amiga and Atari computers.
- jmclnx 6y agoAnd I believe DEC gave Linux a 1 or 2 alpha systems to work on the port