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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
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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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