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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:26:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.96.980220132548.21810N-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802202028.HAA06773@cimlogic.com.au>

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On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, John Birrell wrote:

>I'd prefer not to put a NOFOO on every foo that doesn't work on alpha.
>Testing for the MACHINE accurately reflects the state of the port.
>That way, anyone can say "hey perl hasn't been ported to alpha, I'll
>work on that". OK, so I dream...

So, is this all just theoretical work being done in preparation for the
impending ALPHA port, or is there an actual piece of ALPHA hardware in
this loop somewhere?  I'm intrigued!  :-)


Brian


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