From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jul 28 14:12: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (sat.dis.org [216.240.44.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EB037B403 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:12:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6SLDXJ02660; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:13:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107282113.f6SLDXJ02660@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Wilko Bulte , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Removing support for TurboChannel machines from -current In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:00:12 PDT." <3B6327DC.282CED87@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:13:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Let's not chase away someone who might take you up on your > offer in the future by deleting the existing code today. I disagree here. I'd much rather chase these hypothetical individuals away, or at least offer them a more useful and relevant alternative. > What does diking out the code buy you, apart from less code > in a checked out source tree, a bigger Attic, and a large > CVSsup/CTM delta for everyone to have to swallow? It takes away the "moral high ground" perceived by persons such as yourself to perpetuate support for, or argue against changes which prejudice, obsolete, unused and irrelevant hardware. We don't support the TC machines. It's foolish to pretend otherwise, and simply makes for distractions at various levels. The code should go. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message