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Re:Ask HN: Is big-endian dead? by mattst88 on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:04PM (#16188771)
I'm interested to know what you worked on on Alpha.
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Re:Ask HN: Is big-endian dead? by drewg123 on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:03PM (#16190262)
I first did a Myrinet driver for DEC OSF/1.

I then worked on the FreeBSD port to DEC alpha. I helped with initial bringup and all the various issues around that. Then did a lot of the platform support, and the alpha-specific part of the Linux ABI compat layer, as well as the DEC OSF/1 binary compat layer. I ran a box on my desktop running FreeBSD/alpha as my primary workstation for years (API UP1000).

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