On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
The main historic use case I've heard of was running Netscape
Navigator on Alpha Linux, before there was an open source version.
Doing this today to connect to the open internet is probably
a bit pointless, but there may be other use cases.
The _really_ main version was that I decided to make my life easier
for the initial alpha port by trying to run basic (tested) OSF/1
binaries directly.
Netscape may have been one of the binaries people actually ended up
using, but it's probably not a reason any more, since the internet has
moved past that anyway.
Yeah, the alphas on the server side, powering AltaVista, are also long
gone...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
