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--- www/alpha.html	1998/06/19 15:05:58	1.40
+++ www/alpha.html	1999/06/17 19:41:39	1.41
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@
 
 <p>
 The alpha port was derived from the NetBSD/alpha port written by Chris
-Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>.  Unfortunately we cannot track it closely anymore
-as some copyright issues prevent us, check our <a href=policy.html>policy</a>
-page for details.  We are making our own efforts to keep this port modern,
+Demetriou &lt;cgd@netbsd.org&gt;.  Unfortunately we cannot track it closely 
+anymore as some copyright issues prevent us, check our 
+<a href=policy.html>policy</a> page for details.  
+There have been a few efforts to keep this port modern,
 which also includes many userland 64 bit problems which we have tracked down
 and made fixes to.  Many of the improvements mentioned below are not found
 in NetBSD, but you should do your own research to decide which those are.
@@ -33,16 +34,17 @@
 tree, as well as updated with the changes Chris distributed in a separate
 alpha toolchain package.
 <p>
-Today a lot more developers have alpha machines and we are
-seeing interest in a more active port.  This fact has so far led to:
+Today, more developers have alpha machines, and we are seeing interest in 
+a more active port, but there still is very little active development going
+on.  This fact has so far led to:
 <ul>
 <li>A large-scale attack at fixing remaining 64-bit 'long' vs 'int'
 	problems in the entire userland source tree.  Most of these
 	have been fixed, and new 64-bit problems are only rarely found.
 <li>Adaptation of the if_ed ethernet driver.
-<li>Parsing of i386 MBR & disklabels.
+<li>Parsing of i386 MBR &amp; disklabels.
 <li>DDB (kernel debugger) (disassembler, tracebacks, single stepping).
-<li>IDE & ATAPI support.
+<li>IDE &amp; ATAPI support.
 <li>Easy installation via floppy.
 <li>Fixed VGA workstation console driver.  Added "stand-out" (highlight) to it too.
 </ul>
@@ -51,12 +53,13 @@
 <li>ISA DMA (enables many common PC peripherals to be used)
 <li>floppy support (requires ISA DMA).
 <li>ELF object file format (gives shared libs)
+<li>egcs fixes for the Ramdisk
 </ul>
 <p>
 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.
+trying to keep the port alive, but despite more people having alpha,
+the port is barely alive and not too actively maintained.
 </p>
 
 <h3><font color=#0000e0><strong>Supported Hardware:</strong></font></h3>
@@ -147,7 +150,7 @@
 <a href=plat.html><imgheight=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a> 
 <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
 <br>
-<small>$OpenBSD: alpha.html,v 1.40 1998/06/19 15:05:58 pauls Exp $</small>
+<small>$OpenBSD: alpha.html,v 1.41 1999/06/17 19:41:39 espie Exp $</small>
 
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