first Linux port

[U. George]

I dont see how you could avoid 64bit problems. It was a 64 bit machine, 
with no inherent 32bit mode.

Who provided the "C" compiler, and asm ?

Jay Estabrook wrote:
> 
> 
> A 32-bit port was chosen primarily to avoid 64-bit problems, given
> that the current code at that time had only been run on i386. The
> system ran reasonably well with SCSI drivers, though the network stack
> was pretty poor and we never did get that part going.