lots of questions

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 03:23:11 UTC 2010


On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki
<macro at linux-mips.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Owen Mann wrote:
>
>> First off, I'd like to say I'm glad this list maintains body temperature,
>> especially Jay E. and Matt T (oh, and hi to Maciej; got
>> glibc finished for VAX yet? :-).
>
>  Oh, hi! -- glibc has been ready for a while now.  Except from NPTL, that
> is, but LinuxThreads should work for the time being. ;)  Feel free to
> start building a distribution. :)  I'm somewhere in the middle of the Java
> math library port now and gained some progress recently again.  Once this
> is complete I'll release new GCC packages with more language frontends
> than just C.  Except that my development laptop's PSU just died leaving it
> with the battery only, so I'll keep it off till the replacement arrives.
> Shouldn't take too long, hopefully.
>
>  Interested in testing or further development?  We're a bit short of the
> workforce.  I've got a DEC 3000/700 Alpha too for once the VAX port has
> reached some level of completeness. :)  We'll claim world TURBOchannel
> domination then. ;)
>
>  Maciej

Quite interesting. I've got a VAX 4000/m60 I'd like to add to the
effort at some point. (I knew there was a reason I wasn't getting rid
of it!)

Is there any soft of active Linux/VAX website? I don't guess Dave
Airlie still is involved? :)

Matt




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