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  <p>This page contains information about porting FreeBSD to HP/Compaq Alpha
    systems.</p>

  <h3>Status</h3>

  <p>As of FreeBSD 7.0, support for the Alpha platform has been
    removed.  The development of new Alpha systems has been discontinued by
    the hardware vendor; this combined with the widespread deployment of
    more mainstream 64-bit platforms, such as the AMD64 and Intel EM64T
    architectures, has resulted in significantly reduced user and developer
    community interest.</p>

  <h3>FreeBSD/alpha mailing list</h3>

  <p>Because of the dropped support for the Alpha plattform the mailing list
    <em>freebsd-alpha</em> has been closed.  Although it is no
    longer possible to send messages to this mailing list, the archives can
    still be <a
    href="http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists">searched</a>
    or <a
    href="http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/freebsd-alpha.html">browsed</a>.</p>

  <h3>Other Links of Interest</h3>

  <h4>Hardware</h4>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/">HP
      AlphaServer</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations.html">
      HP AlphaStation</a></li>
  </ul>

  <h4>Projects</h4>

  <ul>
    <li><a
      href="http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/alpha/">NetBSD/alpha</a></li>

    <li><a
      href="http://www.OpenBSD.org/alpha.html">OpenBSD/alpha</a></li>

    <li><a href="http://www.alphalinux.org/">AlphaLinux</a></li>
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