Re: why support alpha??

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 06:13, you wrote:
> > > Isn't alpha dead? Why bother supporting them in 5.2 it seems like
> > > wasted energy. Yes people still use it but for them there is 4.9 which
> > > works fine. You could better serve the freebsd community by focusing on
> > > the
> >
> > No, there's not a lot of future left for the architecture. The writing is
> > on the wall, but some would say the same thing for sun4u. However,
> > there's still lots of Alpha users running FreeBSD (as evidenced by this
> > list) and the continuing Alpha development for FreeBSD.
>
> Supporting as many architectures as possible is always good
> for overall code portability, and therefore code quality.
yes, yes, I get it and agree, thx