why support alpha??

[eqe at cox.net]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 11:12, you wrote:
> Quoting Eriq Lamar <eqe at cox.net>:
> > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 22:53, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > 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?!?
> >
> > 1. why not read the message body I think I explained it in plain
> > english.
> >
> > > So what's your point?
> >
> > 2. for my point read 1.
>
> Sending mail like this is pretty much flamebait. Alpha is not dead, and
> last I heard whoever owns rights to it this week is still releasing new
> hardware, although they aren't hyping it at all.
>
> Ken
sorry it was my impression that their would be no further versions of alpha 
and or at least it's growth is suspect. But I will reseach this now. and 
again this email was just a thought about improving freebsd as a whole 
nothing more I just found it  strange that in 5.2 there would be so much 
backward compatability and could not help but wonder for what purpose I would 
never build a new server with a 386,486,or 586 for that matter.