Re: free hardware platforms
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 19:10:32 +0100 (BST)
> Speak you of the pc-532 machines? National Semiconductor 32532, as I
> remember.. =) NetBSD and Minix run on those, i think... but I think
> there were less than 250 of the boards ever made, and probably waaay less
> than that were ever soldered together and running. They are neat,
> though... look at www.netbsd.org/Ports/pc532/index.html for a summary of the
> platform, if you're interested.
Yeah. Those are the beasts.
> Some guy at MIT or someplace like that up north was designing Alpha-based
> workstations. I'm pretty sure it was MIT, and pretty sure that the guy's
> name was Smith. First initial J? dunno.
Would that be the "Joe" guy several people are trying to find with baseball
bats to get their money back or someone else ?