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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2006 14:21:40 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@infopuls.com, alpha@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0
Message-ID:  <8664k219yj.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20060519111519.GA1587@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> (Peter Jeremy's message of "Fri, 19 May 2006 21:15:19 %2B1000")
References:  <200605111424.04935.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060518101734.4036.qmail@dachs.cyberlink.ch> <20060519082621.GA736@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060519094154.GA10634@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060519111519.GA1587@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
> There have been device drivers that have been lost in -current before
> so it not a totally novel concept but this is the first architecture
> to have been dropped.

There is at least one precedent: Sparc32.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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