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 this will hopefully be a more distributively (and better) maintained port.  this will hopefully be a more distributively (and better) maintained port.
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   <h3><strong>Supported Hardware:</strong></h3>
   <ul>
   <li><b>DEC 3000/[3456789]00 series with the following peripherals:</b>
     <ul>
     <li> Supported hardware:
       <ul>
       <li> Built-in serial ports.
       <li> Built-in LANCE ethernet.
       <li> Built-in SCSI chips (53c[f]94), though both may not work at the same time.
       </ul>
     <li> Things that may work but haven't been tested:
       <ul>
       <li> TurboChannel option slot LANCE (PMAD-A).
       </ul>
   
     <li> Things are *not* supported at this time:
       <ul>
       <li> Frame buffers of any type.
       <li> Other TurboChannel option boards.
       <li> The ISDN/Audio chip.
       </ul>
     </ul>
   
   <li><b> AlphaStation {200,250,255,400,500} and AXPpci systems (including the Multia) using the following peripherals:</b>
     <ul>
     <li> Supported hardware:
       <ul>
       <li> NCR 53c810 SCSI (built-in or PCI board).
       <li> Built-in ns16550 serial ports.
       <li> DC21040-based ethernet (built-in or PCI board).
       <li> DC21140-based PCI ethernet boards.
       <li> DC21050-based PCI-PCI bridges (though other types of PCI-PCI bridges should work).
       <li> PCI VGA video boards.
       <li> DEC ZLXp-E1 (DC21030-based, "TGA") video boards.
       <li> PCI and ISA NE2000-compatible ethernet cards.
       <li> SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards.
       <li> Keyboard.
       <li> PS/2-style mice.
       </ul>
   
     <li> Things that may work but haven't been tested:
       <ul>
       <li> Built-in parallel ports.
       <li> ISA ns16x50-family serial port boards.
       <li> ISA ns16x50 multi-port serial boards.
       <li> Other NCR 53c8xx SCSI boards.
       </ul>
   
   
     <li> Things that are *not* supported at this time:
       <ul>
       <li> ISA VGA boards.
       <li> Sound hardware (including Windows Sound System built-in on some machines).
       <li> DEC ZLXp-E2 and ZLXp-E3 PCI video boards.
       <li> The built-in scsi controller on the AlphaStation 600.
       <li> PCI boards not listed above.
       <li> The floppy drive.
       <li> IDE controllers (including the built-in IDE controller on some machines).
       </ul>
     </ul>
   
   
   <li><b>At this time none of the following systems are supported:</b>
     <ul>
     <li> DECpc AXP 150 systems (EISA-bus PC-like systems)
     <li> Alpha "server" systems (other than perhaps the AlphaServer 400, which might be an AlphaStation 400 in disguise).
     <li> Multiprocessor Alpha systems
     </ul>
   </ul>
   
   
 <h3><strong>Projects (in no particular order):</strong></h3>  <h3><strong>Projects (in no particular order):</strong></h3>
 <ul>  <ul>
 <li>ISA DMA support (needed for floppy support among other stuff).  <li>ISA DMA support (needed for floppy support among other stuff).
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 <h3><strong>Snapshots:</strong></h3>  <h3><strong>Snapshots:</strong></h3>
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 OpenBSD/alpha has not yet seen a proper release, but Thomas Graichen  OpenBSD/alpha saw its first proper release in OpenBSD 2.1.  Thomas Graichen
 <a href=mailto:graichen@openbsd.org>&lt;graichen@openbsd.org&gt;</a>  <a href=mailto:graichen@openbsd.org>&lt;graichen@openbsd.org&gt;</a>
 has been creating OpenBSD/alpha snapshots from time to time. You may find them  has been creating OpenBSD/alpha snapshots from time to time. You may find them
 on <a href=ftp.html>the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</a>.  Please talk to Thomas  on <a href=ftp.html>the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</a>.  Please talk to Thomas
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