Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx> writes:

> 
> 1. You have to keep in mind that for Linux, the Alpha was the first
>    port.  Before this, the Linux kernel only ran on the Intel. 

That's a convenient rewrite of history.  However, some of us recall
the `Linux 68k' debacle.  It wasn't that there was no effort to port
Linux; it was that Linus simply didn't integrate much of the work
until the Alpha port.

> So far, I have not seen anything that proves that technically, it was
> a bad decision but all the contrary.

Uh ... `whatever'.