From: Eliot & Linda <elcm@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Announcing VisualWorks 3.0 on Linux
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 18:51:32 -0800

John Rickenbrode wrote:
> 
> I'm probably pushing my luck, but is there any news/rumors on
> whether there will be a Linux/PPC version of Visualworks?
> (non-commercial or commercial)?

What I'm about to say doesn't constitute an official statement, but it
does reflect our current thinking.  We don't want to support other than
the Intel Linux port but we would like to see others port to and support
other CPUs/ISAs for Linux.  One way to explore the demand is to do an
unsupported non-commercial port and then see how popular it is by
looking at the number of downloads.  This is of course what we did with
Intel Linux.

The person/organization doing the port has to be "known to us" for us to
feel comfortable and has to sign a non-disclosure agreement.  A port to
Alpha Linux is underway and I'm in contact with two other people about
possible PPC and ARM (Netwinder) ports.  But don't expect anything
anytime soon, and currently we've no idea who would take-on the
responsibility of commercial releases on these or other Linux platforms.
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