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Well..<BR>
You may be joking, but I'm sort of serious:<BR>
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I have three Alphas. I only tried to boot one so far, and it didn't seem to work.<BR>
I would like to add ALPHA_LINUX, ALPHA_NETBSD, ALPHA_OPENBSD, ALPHA_FREEBSD (6.x; they dropped support in 7.0x), ALPHA_VMS, and resurrect ALPHA_OSF. If it was new port I'd tend to call it ALPHA_TRU64, but I think OSF is close enough to the present reality and in the current target fashion, to keep it.<BR>
I don't see ALPHA_NT as viable though, unless we get a C-generating backend. It'd have to be NT 4.0 and it'd be 32bit.<BR>
I think I have install media for all of these, though licensing is not always clear.<BR>
I have Windows 2000 Alpha beta, but I don't believe it was released so probably not good to use. There was a 64bit Alpha NT platform also but never released.<BR>
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The cost of bringing up new platforms, given certain common but not universal prerequisites is significantly decreased vs. what it used to be, and I intend to bring it a bit further down still.<BR>
The main work at this point is to get the machine and install the OS and get a working C compilation environment.<BR>
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However given the slow rate of progress lately, I'm not sure we'll get Alpha anything.<BR>
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I have a large backlog of platforms to support and many of them I've already gotten the hardware and OS and C compiler working on.<BR>
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I've had far more progress on many other lesser platforms that we aren't releasing.<BR>
Getting the machines up and working and building C.<BR>
IA64_LINUX, MIPS_IRIX (32/64), PPC_AIX (32/64), HPPA_LINUX (32?), HPPA_HPUX (32/64)<BR>
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so those should probably come before Alpha.<BR>
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Not to mention better I386+AMD64+NETBSD+OPENBSD+SOLARIS, and maybe PPC.<BR>
I've been using VMs somewhat.<BR>
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Alpha is interesting though.<BR>
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- Jay<BR><BR> <BR>> From: hosking@cs.purdue.edu<BR>> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:17:13 -0400<BR>> To: jkrell@elego.de<BR>> CC: m3commit@elegosoft.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3<BR>> <BR>> I actually still have an ALPHA_OSF box that I sometimes think of resurrecting. Is it really dead? ;-)<BR>> <BR>> On 17 Apr 2010, at 13:16, Jay Krell wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > CVSROOT: /usr/cvs<BR>> > Changes by: jkrell@birch. 10/04/17 13:16:31<BR>> > <BR>> > Removed files:<BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/: ChangeLog <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/AIX386/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/ALPHA_OSF/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/AP3000/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/ARM/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/DS3100/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/FreeBSD/: COPYRIGHT Csetjmp.i3 <BR>> > m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/FreeBSD2/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/FreeBSD3/: COPYRIGHT Csetjmp.i3 <BR>> > m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/HP300/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/HPPA/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/IBMR2/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/IBMRT/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/IRIX5/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/LINUX/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/LINUXELF/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/NEXT/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/OKI/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile setjmp.s <BR>> > signal.o <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/OS2/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/SEQUENT/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/SPARC/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/SUN3/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/SUN386/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/C/VAX/: Csetjmp.i3 m3makefile <BR>> > <BR>> > Log message:<BR>> > delete lots of dead/dormant platforms, even some that *might* come back<BR>> > It is easy enough to bring them back.<BR>> <BR> </body>
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