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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:
> 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.

...which doesn't really count because it was abandoned before any of
the kernel bits hit the tree, IIRC.

DES
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