Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 12:17:34 +0200 From: freebsd-alpha@infopuls.com To: alpha@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0 Message-ID: <20060518101734.4036.qmail@dachs.cyberlink.ch> In-Reply-To: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org>
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Hi folks, a couple of weeks ago a professional FreeBSD supporter managed to bring my PWS500a up to work with 4.11 after many failing attempts by myself. Some of you may remember that I posted a few questions about this machine to this list. Since then I'm using the machine as server and I'm very happy with it. Of course, I regret that the Alpha branch is not continued in FreeBSD development because I intend to use this and some other Alpha boxes that I plan to buy for many years. I like the Alpha architecture and I got the impression that most of the higher level problems like seg-faults in Mozilla on Alpha are caused by dirty programming techniques or bugs in the C compiler related to 64 Bit addressing. Cleaning up such problems would result in better code for the other architectures also. Nevertheless: Thank you very much for FreeBSD/Alpha so far! Ulrich
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