Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:54:50 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Steve Kargl" <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0704061354j30b6a96cu328a4e6079739b0f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070406203642.GA75672@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <ef10de9a0704050839g7b873dabw5a5e211140781781@mail.gmail.com> <20070405180711.GA60539@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <ef10de9a0704060640h528a9d11o422bddf6d64a395f@mail.gmail.com> <20070406193125.GA27879@kobe.laptop> <ef10de9a0704061306k6b72f258uedd9ee7637dde10e@mail.gmail.com> <20070406201921.GA75435@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <ef10de9a0704061325r150fe085k8571a45bc77923ec@mail.gmail.com> <20070406203642.GA75672@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On 4/6/07, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 03:25:24PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > 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!!! > > That's odd. See NEC's press release dated 23 OCT 97 > concerning a new series of PC98-NX > > http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/9710/2301.html > "The PC-9801's last successor is the Celeron-based PC-9821Ra43 (with a clockspeed 433MHz), which appeared in 2000" -Wikipedia Ok I was off by 3 years, but it's still been dead longer than Alpha.
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