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Subject: Re: why support alpha??
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On Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:58, you wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:43:02PM -0500, eqe@cox.net wrote:
> > 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
> > future of computing like amd64, great dual support, better drivers, etc.
> > and most people know this, so why not let alpha die. I personally like
> > alpha but it has no future.
>
> Well, thankyou for your thoughts, Mr. Nobody.
>
> Kris
that's Mr. Lamar however I think you have missed the point genius, try reading 
it again.