> 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 dependen

> 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.