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Date:      Tue, 02 Jun 1998 12:39:47 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        jbarbee@singular.com
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: future of slpha port 
Message-ID:  <199806021939.MAA10668@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 11:36:37 -0700 
 jbarbee@singular.com (John Barbee) wrote:

 > i was told that when the loaner went away, the alpha port was given to netbsd. 

What does that _mean_?  NetBSD/alpha has existed for a fairly long time,
and was done completely independently of any FreeBSD work in that area.

 > are there any future plans for freebsd and alpha or is that project permanently
 > closed?
 > 
 > we bought an alphastation 200 and are deciding what to run on it.

Well, you certainly can run NetBSD/alpha on it.

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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