Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:12:36 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0 Message-ID: <20060512091236.GA56790@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060511223035.189F545053@ptavv.es.net> References: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060511223035.189F545053@ptavv.es.net>
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On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:30:35PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote.. > > From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> > > Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 14:24:03 -0400 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > > > Alpha was the first non-x86 port that was added to FreeBSD, and as such it has > > greatly aided the efforts to keep FreeBSD from being too i386-centric. > > However, recently the Alpha port has not had any active development or > > maintenance. As a result, the quality of the Alpha releases that the Project > > provides are not on par with other supported architectures and is in fact > > degrading. Unfortunately, as an architecture it has also been killed by its > > creator. > > I'd say to was killed by its owner. It's creator (corporate) no longer > exists and its creators (designers) are very sad at its demise. It was > an amazing design for its time and could have been a powerful force in > hardware with anything that resembled reasonable marketing. Interesting side note: quite a few of the Alpha folks moved to AMD. And see what happened :) > (Sorry for the digression. The Alpha was very dear to me and, while not > a designer, I knew some of them.) Same here :/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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