LOCAL - Boston, MA - BCS Linux/Unix User's Group - 06/19/96

[Guy W Bzibziak]

Meeting Topic: "Linux/Alpha: A Year Later"

Presented by: Jim Paradis [paradis at amt.tay1.dec.com]
		
Who:    Boston Computer Society Linux/Unix User's Group
Date:   19 June 1996, Wednesday
Time:   7:00 pm.
Place:  MIT, Building 6 Room 120 (Eastman Labs.)
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Jim Paradis of Digital Equipment Corporation shows us Linux/Alpha, a port
of Linux to the Digital Alpha AXP. Jim was at our March 1995 meeting, when
the Alpha port was in its early stages; the project has made tremendous
progress over the past year, and Jim will show us where things stand
now. 

The kernel port is pretty much "done", and the main work these days
involves doing platform-specific things on new hardware (e.g. DEC
rolls out a new PCI-based Alpha box, and we qualify and tweak Linux
to run on it).

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Linux is a UNIX-like operating system built around POSIX standards.  From
its inception less than six years ago, it was developed over the Internet
by a group of people who (for the most part) have never seen each other,
and now runs on an (estimated) 1,000,000 computer systems.  The operating
system (and the source code for it) is free to anyone who wants it.  This
is probably the largest development project ever accomplished using the
Internet. 

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