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Hello, I am a software engineer for Compaq Computer Corp. (formally Digital Equipment Corp.). I attended the ESC '98 West last week and learned about ecos there. My management and I made contact with you folks and hopefully will be having more discussions over the next few weeks. I have a few questions for this mailing list though... 1.) Has there been or is there any interest in ecos for the Alpha processor? 2.) POSIX is a necessary thing for our current customer base, so work in this area is important to us, is there currently a POSIX effort going on in some way? 3.) Has anyone contacted the list to say that they are working on an Alpha port (we are a large company and I have not yet found anyone else within Compaq-Digital)? 4.) Do you have any sense if the currently available Alpha Linux tools could be used as a base to do the Alpha tools porting? This is in an effort to avoid licensing issues with the shipping Compaq-Alpha tools under other operating systems. 5.) We understand that Alpha is not usually considered an embedded processor, but we do have various Alpha SBC's. In your venture in the embedded market, is there a target bus architecture that people ask and use more than most others? I ask this question, since it would make sense to pick a currently available SBC to do the initial port with, than to also create a special "eval" board. This is from my current point of view. Maybe responses to this message will guide us down another road. Let me say this, this message should in NO way be viewed as an official statement that Compaq will be supporting ecos on Alpha. It is just an engineer that sees a need (for our custom project business) and a possible solution. Thanks for any input, Tim Tenhave Tim.Tenhave@Digital.com