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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:59:51 -0500
From:      eqe@cox.net
To:        cpghost@cordula.ws
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why support alpha??
Message-ID:  <200312102059.51118.eqe@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200312101113.hBABDdo7066348@fw.farid-hajji.net>
References:  <200312092243.02269.eqe@cox.net> <20031210054413.GA58841@just.puresimplicity.net> <200312101113.hBABDdo7066348@fw.farid-hajji.net>

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On Wednesday 10 December 2003 06:13, you 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
> >
> > 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.
yes, yes, I get it and agree, thx



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