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Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@infopuls.com,
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Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Alpha support is being retired in 7.0
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des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
> 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.

oh, and MIPS.

DES
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