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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:25:24 -0500
From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
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On 4/6/07, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>

NEC stopped making PC98 system in 1997!!!