Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:13:39 +0100 (CET) From: "Cordula's Web" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: hemi@puresimplicity.net Cc: eqe@cox.net Subject: Re: why support alpha?? Message-ID: <200312101113.hBABDdo7066348@fw.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <20031210054413.GA58841@just.puresimplicity.net> (message from Josh Tolbert on Tue, 9 Dec 2003 23:44:14 -0600) References: <200312092243.02269.eqe@cox.net> <20031210054413.GA58841@just.puresimplicity.net>
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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. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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