[GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

[Alvin Starr]

On 2023-09-19 10:09, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 10:16:05PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
[snip]
> No, DEC went to Compaq went to HP where the itanium love finally killed
> the Alpha.  Not Dell.
>
DEC actually provided lots of support to Linux.
Very early on there were ports of a 64 bit version of Linux to the Alpha 
processors.
There was also a tiny variant that was the boot bios.
Possibly the biggest booster of Linux in DEC was Jon Hall 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer)

We had a bunch of Alpha machines and I was sad to see them go.


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