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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!mogul From: mogul@pa.dec.com (Jeffrey Mogul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: DEC Alpha port of NetBSD Date: 25 Nov 1995 01:33:26 GMT Organization: DEC Western Research Lines: 32 Message-ID: <495rp6$hc7@usenet.pa.dec.com> References: <491ie8$4tg@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> <MICHAELV.95Nov23103449@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnomea-fddi.pa.dec.com As far as I know, Digital has no official policy with respect to either Linux or NetBSD. We have contributed support to both efforts. I was the internal sponsor for our support of the NetBSD port, which consisted of donating four fairly well-equipped workstations to CMU, who paid for the actual port and provided equipment. I have also helped a number of NetBSD people obtain technical documentation. Meanwhile, several other DEC people have been assisting with the Linux port, in vaguely similar ways (by which I mean that I have only a vague idea of what these ways are). I do not believe this has involved much support from Digital besides the donation of some equipment (probably representing fewer total $$ that what we gave to CMU for NetBSD, since the Linux people got cheaper systems, I think). However, a number of DEC people have volunteered their own time to work on the Linux port. No accounting for taste :-). I also have heard that there is some support being provided to an XFree86 port to Alpha, for both Linux and NetBSD. Sorry, I have no additional details. Digital's main UNIX investment, of course, was/is/will be for Digital UNIX, and that's the system I use myself (of course, I don't have to pay for it myself). My support for NetBSD has been motivated (in part) because Digital UNIX is "BSD inside", and I hope that future innovations in NetBSD will be useful for Digital UNIX. -Jeff