why support alpha??

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:43:02PM -0500, eqe at cox.net wrote:
> Isn't alpha dead? Why bother supporting them in 5.2 it seems like wasted
> energy. Yes people still use it but for them there is 4.9 which works
> fine. You could better serve the freebsd community by focusing on the
> future of computing like amd64, great dual support, better drivers, etc.
> and most people know this, so why not let alpha die. I personally like
> alpha but it has no future.


What is the purpose of this email?!?
I work at AMD, have several AMD64 machines at my disposal, and yet I
still had an interest to fire my Alpha and test FreeBSD 5.2-RC on it.
So what's your point?

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)