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Date:      Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:43:11 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha exception.s genassym.c
Message-ID:  <20030218014311.GA80429@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302171706430.16142-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <20030217152317.D81102@locore.ca> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302171706430.16142-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:20:57PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:

> As a sidebar, in my opinion sparc is irrelevant except as a porting
> exercize to keep the code clean.  I think it is damaging to the project
> to have it a tier 1 architecture. In case no-one has noticed the sparc
> comes with a unix OS already, so the market is miniscule. techncally
> nice, but basically irrelevant to the success of the project except as a
> roadblock to progress. Anyhow that's just my opinion. Others are free to
> disagree (and obviously do). (Nothing personal, just my opinion on
> where we should be placing sparc stuff in he overall priority list.)

IA64 also comes with a unix OS (Linux).  So does alpha and i386.  Why
don't we all pack up and go home?

Kris


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