From: als@usenet.thangorodrim.de   
      
   Johnny Billquist  wrote:   
   > On 2025-10-24 19:46, Chris Townley wrote:   
   >> On 24/10/2025 18:34, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> We don't know for sure.   
   >>>   
   >>> But what OS are supported on Alpha today besides VMS?   
   >>>   
   >>> Tru64 went out of support in 2012.   
   >>>   
   >>> And it seems like a case where support does matter.   
   >>>   
   >>> Arne   
   >>>   
   >> Even NetBSD dropped Alpha support quite a while back   
   >   
   > Say what? When did NetBSD stopped supporting Alpha? It's still listed on   
   > the webpage, along with VAX (gee, anyone heard of that architecture?).   
      
   Hey, some of us are in fact running NetBSD/vax, albeit in SIMH due to   
   lack of (or rather: lack of space and power budget for) real hardware.   
      
   > Yes, Alpha is no longer "Tier 1" at NetBSD, but that is not the same as   
   > "dropped support".   
   >   
   > https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/   
      
   Works Just Fine™, can confirm. Although some software tends to go   
   "What the [censored] is this?" when it encounters VAX floating point ;-)   
      
   Kind regards,   
             Alex.   
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