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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:15:31 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        "H. Jared Agnew" <jagnew@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Alpha port?? 
Message-ID:  <15614.843167731@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:18:29 EDT." <199609191318.JAA02976@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> 

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> After talking with some people today on irc I was told that the port to Alpha
> was the strongest, however the lack of hardware was holding it up.  Sorry to 

Strongest what? :-)

> if this is not true, but what is the need when you are trying to port an OS. 
 One machine
> , two machines, ten machines?  Where do they go?  When do you get them back, 

2 is generally good so that you can run one under an already existing
OS, like Digital UNIX or even Red Hat Linux (though the former would
be the one you'd want binary compatibility with, so I'd say it'd be
the best bet), and the other can be your development target.  The
existing OS platform can be used for verification and cross-compiling
and is pretty important.

I also wouldn't expect to get both machines back (perhaps one) since
whomever's doing the port is also going to need to *support* the thing
as new releases are contemplated.

In any case, it's all kind of moot since we don't have the manpower.
I have already had people offer the hardware and I've turned it down
with a polite request that they "hold that thought" for now and wait
until we've actually got someone lined up with both the free time and
the skills to port FreeBSD to the ALPHA.

					Jordan



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