Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:19:21 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <20070406201921.GA75435@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0704061306k6b72f258uedd9ee7637dde10e@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <ef10de9a0704050839g7b873dabw5a5e211140781781@mail.gmail.com> <20070405180711.GA60539@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <ef10de9a0704060640h528a9d11o422bddf6d64a395f@mail.gmail.com> <20070406193125.GA27879@kobe.laptop> <ef10de9a0704061306k6b72f258uedd9ee7637dde10e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 03:06:20PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > I only suggested dropping PC98. Why? If you look at the PC98 page* it > hasn't been updated since FreeBSD 4.11 and bsdstats.org shows zero > people using it... PC98 is a dead platform like Alpha and Alpha > support is being dropped for FreeBSD 7, but if you look at > bsdstats.org the Alpha platform has more users than sparc, powerpc and > pc98 combined!! pc98 appears to be popular in Japan. See http://people.freebsd.org/~kato/pc98.html Alpha died because the chip maker stopped making chips. PS: Apologies to the others on this list who will receive yet another reply in a useless thread. -- Steve
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