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Fun fact - Linus first trip to the United States was related to Linux-on-Alpha port and sponsored by Digital Equipment Corporation.

The Alpha CPUs didn’t implement the div instruction and Linus’ assembly version was faster than DEC’s in some cases.

That's nice. (Not uncommon in early RISC, (e.g. PowerPC had some similar limitations for 64 bit ints), and various assembly fun ensued).