why support alpha??

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> > 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

> No, there's not a lot of future left for the architecture. The writing is on
> the wall, but some would say the same thing for sun4u. However, there's still
> lots of Alpha users running FreeBSD (as evidenced by this list) and the
> continuing Alpha development for FreeBSD.

Supporting as many architectures as possible is always good
for overall code portability, and therefore code quality.

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