> On the other hand, try running FreeBSD on an Alpha ...

OK!

root@beast-> uname -a
FreeBSD beast.cdrom.com 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Oct 17 04:50:13 PDT 1998     jkh@beast.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BEAST  alpha

Sorry, I couldn't resist. :-)

I just wanted to make the point that FreeBSD/alpha works just fine and
it's a bit outdated to refer to FreeBSD as a single architecture OS.
The 4 assorted FreeBSD/alpha machines I have here, at least, are quite
stable despite getting beaten up fairly regularly.  With all due
credit to NetBSD for providing the reference port, of course.

- Jordan