From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 6 20:54:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3809016A401 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 20:54:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E583413C46C for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 20:54:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so1134692ana for ; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:54:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HZGGLVJlgwHuRGI5NbmwL2wct9jKs8yCUrkvm144DkM4OCNEE+xepBcLMSJwUS5nRT53KHJZ3X5cS+5477JavWi2vRzaTIwpXm8nRDcEUGp7lrZML0pGxGwoGR9IxPfscWuK3LD8Y/+4DYDQDtOl1+t4Vqio7uCBSewGlFFNhco= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YLY+kFXjUY/B9NjL23apr18NmSTlqTY1iFCiebMsyKiqquVGs0T/yg5XOVODn/gX7x3VFTTozQUqAz2lTDLdRxUWEFAN7PeDSTu6UMqJXE6rnKvxPmnO52swIn3elWJRECMEef0WyjJsWi+wBd/D94YMTQXEb2Tp3cwF8D9a42U= Received: by 10.100.57.14 with SMTP id f14mr2345836ana.1175892890159; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:54:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.109.12 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:54:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:54:50 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Steve Kargl" In-Reply-To: <20070406203642.GA75672@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070405180711.GA60539@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20070406193125.GA27879@kobe.laptop> <20070406201921.GA75435@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20070406203642.GA75672@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Peter Jeremy , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:54:51 -0000 On 4/6/07, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 03:25:24PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > On 4/6/07, Steve Kargl 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.