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From: "H. Jared Agnew" <jagnew@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
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Subject: Alpha port??
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:18:29 -0400 (EDT)
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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 jump in
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, do you get
them back.  After you get the machines, about how long would it take?  Sorry if anyone
thinks I'm being presumptous, but I love FreeBSD and I love the Alpha, I dont want
to use Linux on my alpha!!!  If we are porting to the alpha proccessor, please say we
are doing it for the new alphas, and not the turbo channel alphas.

Thanks for any reply:

---  Jared
--jared@vt.edu