Hardware Platforms

[David Garfield]

On Fri, 16 Jul 93, Gary D. Duzan wrote:

>    Ok folks, I said at the beginning that the perfect operating system
> should run on the perfect machine. Therefore, I say we make the DEC
> Alpha one of the initial platforms. :-)

Well, I don't think Moose will be "perfect", and from what I know of
the Alpha it isn't "perfect" either...

On Tue, 20 Jul 93 Gary D. Duzan wrote:

>    On another note, what is the group's opinion of Ada? Rumor has
> it that GNU Ada is around the corner, so it might be another option
> for implementation language.

Ada?!?  A language designed by government committee that couldn't even
fulfill it's design goal?  Lets not use it, even if GNU Ada does
exist.

>                              Also, I may end up getting an Alpha,
> so that would be another initial Moose implementation platform. The
> PALcode support in Alpha should give us a good bit of flexibility in
> OS primitives.

I too have been thinking of upgrading to an Alpha, and wouldn't mind
seeing it as an initial Moose platform.  Gary, do you have
information, likes, dislikes, or information sources (email addresses,
snail mail addresses, or phone numbers for inquiries) about the Alpha
(or other modern RISC architectures) you would like to share?

>                                         Gary Duzan
>                                         Time  Lord
>                                     Third Regeneration
>                          Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts

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