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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?
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> I still have FreeBSD Alpha, and OpenVMS Alpha/Itanium systems chugging along.

Now, ia64 is another story.
I run fbsd 10-current on ia64.

Have you tried fbsd on ia64?
Are you at all interested in this?

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Anton Shterenlikht
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