Do we need this junk?

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Fri Apr 6 20:19:37 UTC 2007


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.

PS: Apologies to the others on this list who 
will receive yet another reply in a useless
thread.

-- 
Steve


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