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Date:      Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:25:24 -0500
From:      "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        "Steve Kargl" <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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:  <ef10de9a0704061325r150fe085k8571a45bc77923ec@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070406201921.GA75435@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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> <20070406201921.GA75435@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On 4/6/07, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>

NEC stopped making PC98 system in 1997!!!



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