[GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

[James Knott]

On 2023-09-19 11:45, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> 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)

IIRC, the DEC Alpha was the first 64 bit CPU Linux was ported to. There 
was an article about that (written by Jon Hall IIRC) in the Linux Journal.