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  <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
  
  <p>
! The alpha port was derived from the NetBSD/alpha port.  The main difference
! is that the OpenBSD port is self-hosting, i.e. all the tools needed to build a
! full system is included in the tree.  Currently
! <a href="http://www.appli.se/niklas/">Niklas Hallqvist</a>
! <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>&lt;niklas@openbsd.org&gt;</a> is
! maintaining the port.
  </p>
  
  <h3><strong>Projects (in no particular order):</strong></h3>
  <ul>
! <li>Add ISA DMA support (needed for floppies & wss).
! <li>Add floppy support.
! <li>Add WSS audio support.
  <li>DDB support.
  <li>ELF switchover (automatically brings us shared libraries).
  </ul>
  
  <p>
! Thomas Graichen <a
! href=mailto:graichen@openbsd.org>&lt;graichen@openbsd.org&gt;</a>
! creates OpenBSD/alpha snapshots from time to time. You may find them
! on <a href=ftp.html>the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</a>.
  </p>
  
  <hr>
  <a href=plat.html><img src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a> 
  <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
  <br>
! <small>$OpenBSD: alpha.html,v 1.11 1997/02/02 08:01:07 niklas Exp $</small>
  
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  <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
  
  <p>
! The alpha port was derived from, and still tracks, the NetBSD/alpha port
! written by Chris Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>.  Initially the reason for
! existence of this port was to provide the OpenBSD operating system to alpha
! users, i.e. no special effort was put in to develop the port in the machine
! dependent parts.  The main thing that got done was to make the port
! self-hosting, i.e. ensuring that all the tools needed to build a full system
! was included in the tree, as well as updated with the changes Chris
! distributed in a separate alpha toolchain package.
! 
! Today a lot more developers have got themselves alpha machines and we are
! seeing interest in a more active port.  This fact has so far only led to the
! adaption of the if_ed ethernet driver to be usable by the
! alpha port, but there is ongoing work on ISA DMA, floppy, IDE & ATAPI support.
! 
! So far <a href="http://www.appli.se/niklas/">Niklas Hallqvist</a>
! <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>&lt;niklas@openbsd.org&gt;</a> has been
! keeping the port alive, but with the larger developer community coming up
! this will hopefully be a more distributively (and better) maintained port.
  </p>
  
  <h3><strong>Projects (in no particular order):</strong></h3>
  <ul>
! <li>ISA DMA support (needed for floppy support among other stuff).
! <li>Floppy support.
! <li>IDE/ATAPI support.
  <li>DDB support.
  <li>ELF switchover (automatically brings us shared libraries).
  </ul>
  
+ <h3><strong>Snapshots</strong></h3>
  <p>
! OpenBSD/alpha has not yet seen a proper release, but Thomas Graichen
! <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
! on <a href=ftp.html>the usual OpenBSD ftp servers</a>.  Please talk to Thomas
! if you are wondering over installation issues.
  </p>
  
  <hr>
  <a href=plat.html><img src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a> 
  <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
  <br>
! <small>$OpenBSD: alpha.html,v 1.12 1997/04/27 12:36:47 niklas Exp $</small>
  
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