About NetBSD/alpha
NetBSD/alpha is a true 64-bit system that fully implements the LP64
architecture, using 64-bit pointers and 64-bit long integers
(standard integers are still 32 bits) in a linear four terabyte
(4TB) address space. NetBSD/alpha was the first free OS to run on
the Alpha and supports by far the largest number of alpha system
types of any free OS.
NetBSD runs on almost all of the existing alpha systems, including
some of the more unusual ones with proprietary or legacy bus
architectures, such as the large-scale 8400, all of the
TURBOchannel systems, the 4100 series, and the EISA-only Jensen.
Easily installed binary distributions of NetBSD/alpha are
available for the 2.0 release and for
snapshots of NetBSD-current.
NetBSD/alpha News
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2005-12-23:
NetBSD 3.0 released
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NetBSD 3.0 has been
released with support for 57 architectures. More information
is available in the
3.0 release
announcement.
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2005-11-02:
NetBSD 2.1 released
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NetBSD 2.1,
the first maintenance release of the netbsd-2 release branch,
has been released with binary distributions for 48 architectures.
More information is available in the 2.1 release
announcement.
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2005-06-28:
Binary packages for pkgsrc-2005Q2 available
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Tim Rightnour has uploaded binary packages for NetBSD-2.0/alpha from the
pkgsrc-2005Q2 branch into
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-2005Q2/NetBSD-2.0/alpha/.
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2004-12-09:
NetBSD 2.0 released
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NetBSD 2.0 released
with support for 48 architectures. More information is available in
the 2.0 release
announcement.
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2004-03-01:
NetBSD 1.6.2 released
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NetBSD 1.6.2 released
with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in
the 1.6.2 release
announcement.
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2003-04-21:
NetBSD 1.6.1 released
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NetBSD 1.6.1 released
with support for 40 architectures. More information is available in
the 1.6.1 release
announcement.
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2002-09-14:
NetBSD 1.6 released
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NetBSD 1.6 released
with support for 39 architectures. More information is available in
the 1.6 release
announcement.
Archive of NetBSD/alpha news items
Supported System Models
Systems for which support was added in NetBSD 1.4 are marked
(1.4). Systems for
which support was added in NetBSD 1.5 are marked (1.5).
- 264DP, XP1000, DS10, DS20, API UP2000, UP2000+ and other
Tsunami-based EV6 systems (1.4D,
1.4.1)
- API UP1000 and UP1100 (AMD 751-based) EV6 systems
(1.4Z, 1.5)
- DECpc AXP 150 (Jensen)
(1.5)
- DEC 3000/500-family systems (includes DEC 3000/400)
- DEC 3000/300-family systems
- Digital AlphaStation 200, 250, 255,
and 400 systems
- Digital AXPpci systems (including UDB and Multia)
- EB64+-family systems (including Digital EB64+ and
third-party AlphaPC 64 systems)
- EB66 Evaluation Board
(1.4)
- ALPHABook 1 (1.4)
- Digital AlphaStation 500 and 600 systems
- EB164-family systems (including Digital EB164 and
third-party AlphaPC 164 systems) (support
(1.4) for some models)
- Digital AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 systems
- Digital AlphaServer 4100 systems
(1.4)
- Digital AlphaServer 1000 systems
(1.4)
- Digital AlphaServer 1000A systems
(1.4)
- Digital AlphaServer 800 systems
(1.4)
- Digital Personal Workstation (``au'' series)
(1.4)
- Digital Server 330x systems
(1.4)
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