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From: Ross Harvey <ross@teraflop.com>
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To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au
Subject: Re: StrongARM and history
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> From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Wed May 20 09:51:19 1998
> From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: StrongARM and history
> To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au (Peter Jeremy)
> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 22:16:34 +1000 (EST)
> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org
>
> In some mail from Peter Jeremy, sie said:
> > 
> > On Mon, 18 May 1998 13:15:03 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> wrote:
> > >do we have a strong-arm version of FreeBSD coming up? :-)
> > I suspect you'll find a NetBSD version.  (There was a talk at AUUG'97
> > on DEC's NC `DNARD', based on a SA-110.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Word has it that DEC sold out to Microsoft and scrapped the project.
>
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Yes, NetBSD supports the arm32 and the DNARD (there are at least a thousand
around here and there) in particular.

I heard that rumor too, that M$ said: "So, if you want Windoze NoThanks to
keep running on the alpha, cancel that NC project".

But, I don't totally believe it. They may have even said it, but I bet
Compaq would have pulled the plug anyway: I mean, the whole point of the
NC is to make an alternative to the corporate PC avalanche...why would
Compaq fund such a thing now that they have the keys? Of course, the
cancellation did seem a little early to be a Compaq move. Who knows?

Ross Harvey

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