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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.
+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>Add ISA DMA support (needed for floppies & wss).
-<li>Add floppy support.
-<li>Add WSS audio support.
+<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>
-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>.
+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>
 
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