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> " this biggest problem at this moment" is the lack of a bin license to
> distribute your completed efforts. This is my opinion, of course.

Not necessarily, since an assembly program could be used by the Linux
folks if they wished to create a Alpha binary.

Any work the *BSD group did towards an Alpha port would not go to waste,
IMO.


Nate

> > Dear Greg,
> >
> > I took a stab at it, but got sidetracked.
> >
> > http://kjkoster.org/java/index.jsp?page=content/newarch.jsp
> >
> >     Kees Jan
> >
> > > > > > whats going on with the alpha port of the Sun/JDK stuff ?
> > > > > > is there a port/effort?
> > > >
> > > > There is hardware in place to do the port, but so far no
> > > one has stepped
> > > > up to the plate to do it.
> > >
> > > Biggest problem at the moment is the pieces of assembler that need
> > > writing.  Does anyone even know where there is some documentation on
> > > alpha assembler?
> > >
> > >
> 

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