On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 03:25:24PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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!!! That's odd. See NEC's press release dated 23 OCT 97 concerning a new series of PC98-NX http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/9710/2301.html -- SteveReceived on Fri Apr 06 2007 - 18:36:57 UTC
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