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Date:      Tue, 02 Jun 1998 17:24:01 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        jbarbee@singular.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: future of slpha port 
Message-ID:  <11161.896833441@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jun 1998 07:03:58 %2B1000." <199806022103.HAA21330@cimlogic.com.au> 

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> I think you might be referring to the work that Jeffrey Hsu and Terry
> Lambert did porting NetBSD/Alpha to the AXPpci33 (a.k.a. noname). This
> wasn't FreeBSD - they used the NetBSD/Alpha port done by Chris Demetriou.
> The noname work was contributed by Jeffrey back to NetBSD and at least
> partly re-written by Chris AFAIK.e

Ahhh right, I'd forgotten about that early abortive little attempt.
This may indeed be where the original poster was confused.

The 4 Alphas which Digital loaned to us many months ago now are a
different story, and of those we basically now have 3 on indefinite
loan status from DEC.  The 4th, a multiprocessor ALPHAserver, never
made it through the Australian customs barrier to its intended
recipient and was eventually simply returned to Digital.  That will be
the first and last time I attempt to have any significant piece of
hardware sent into that country. :-(

In any case, things seem to be going well with the FreeBSD/alpha
project and if I can ever figure out why things are still mysteriously
falling over for me on my own alpha when building the FreeBSD-current
source tree, I'll try a prototype release build at some point. :)

- Jordan

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