Re: lots of questions

Matt Turner <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:23:11 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.axp.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki
<[email protected]> 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? :-).
>
> =A0Oh, hi! -- glibc has been ready for a while now. =A0Except from NPTL, =
that
> is, but LinuxThreads should work for the time being. ;) =A0Feel free to
> start building a distribution. :) =A0I'm somewhere in the middle of the J=
ava
> math library port now and gained some progress recently again. =A0Once th=
is
> is complete I'll release new GCC packages with more language frontends
> than just C. =A0Except 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.
>
> =A0Interested in testing or further development? =A0We're a bit short of =
the
> workforce. =A0I've got a DEC 3000/700 Alpha too for once the VAX port has
> reached some level of completeness. :) =A0We'll claim world TURBOchannel
> domination then. ;)
>
> =A0Maciej

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