On 4/6/07, Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 03:06:20PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > I only suggested dropping PC98. Why? If you look at the PC98 page* it > > hasn't been updated since FreeBSD 4.11 and bsdstats.org shows zero > > people using it... PC98 is a dead platform like Alpha and Alpha > > support is being dropped for FreeBSD 7, but if you look at > > bsdstats.org the Alpha platform has more users than sparc, powerpc and > > pc98 combined!! > > pc98 appears to be popular in Japan. See > http://people.freebsd.org/~kato/pc98.html > > Alpha died because the chip maker stopped > making chips. > NEC stopped making PC98 system in 1997!!!Received on Fri Apr 06 2007 - 18:25:30 UTC
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