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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:43:46 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Stephen Jones <smj@cirr.com>
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On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 05:19:24PM -0700, Stephen Jones wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to hear some opinions on production implementations in 
> regards to FreeBSD/alpha.
> I'm not really interested in how much uptime you've accumulated on a 
> idle or lightly used
> system.  Basically I'd like to hear from people who are using 
> FreeBSD/alpha with:
> 
> * stock DS10L and CS20 machines (AS8400 too)

TurboLaser support is shaky, on 4.x (for some version of x) it worked
but 5.x it does no longer (I have not tried for a long time).

DS10[L] support is pretty much OK.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org