diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index 2d48d5a0b4..6daa05f4a3 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
       </author>
     </authorgroup>
 
-    <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.119 2000/11/01 18:50:56 jim Exp $</pubdate>
+    <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.120 2000/11/09 16:40:09 phantom Exp $</pubdate>
 
     <abstract>
       <para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X.
@@ -10848,17 +10848,12 @@ ${RELEASEDIR}/tarballs/bindist/bin_tgz.)</programlisting>
           <para>Several groups of people have expressed interest in
             working on multi-architecture ports for FreeBSD and the
             FreeBSD/AXP (ALPHA) port is one such effort which has been
-            quite successful, now available in 3.0 SNAPshot release form at
+            quite successful, now available at
             <ulink URL="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/alpha/">
             ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/alpha</ulink>. The ALPHA port
             currently runs on a growing number of ALPHA machine types,
             among them the AlphaStation, AXPpci, PC164, Miata and Multia
-            models. This port is not yet considered a full release and
-            won't be until a full compliment of system installation tools
-            and a distribution on CDROM installation media is available,
-            including a reasonable number of working ports and packages.
-            FreeBSD/AXP should be considered BETA quality software at this
-            time. For status information, please join the
+            models. For status information, please join the
             <email>freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org</email> <link
             linkend="mailing">mailing list</link>.</para>
 
diff --git a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index 2d48d5a0b4..6daa05f4a3 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
       </author>
     </authorgroup>
 
-    <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.119 2000/11/01 18:50:56 jim Exp $</pubdate>
+    <pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.120 2000/11/09 16:40:09 phantom Exp $</pubdate>
 
     <abstract>
       <para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X.
@@ -10848,17 +10848,12 @@ ${RELEASEDIR}/tarballs/bindist/bin_tgz.)</programlisting>
           <para>Several groups of people have expressed interest in
             working on multi-architecture ports for FreeBSD and the
             FreeBSD/AXP (ALPHA) port is one such effort which has been
-            quite successful, now available in 3.0 SNAPshot release form at
+            quite successful, now available at
             <ulink URL="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/alpha/">
             ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/alpha</ulink>. The ALPHA port
             currently runs on a growing number of ALPHA machine types,
             among them the AlphaStation, AXPpci, PC164, Miata and Multia
-            models. This port is not yet considered a full release and
-            won't be until a full compliment of system installation tools
-            and a distribution on CDROM installation media is available,
-            including a reasonable number of working ports and packages.
-            FreeBSD/AXP should be considered BETA quality software at this
-            time. For status information, please join the
+            models. For status information, please join the
             <email>freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org</email> <link
             linkend="mailing">mailing list</link>.</para>