In message: <ef10de9a0704061354j30b6a96cu328a4e6079739b0f_at_mail.gmail.com> "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton_at_gmail.com> writes: : On 4/6/07, Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: : > 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 : > : : "The PC-9801's last successor is the Celeron-based PC-9821Ra43 (with a : clockspeed 433MHz), which appeared in 2000" -Wikipedia Ok I was off : by 3 years, but it's still been dead longer than Alpha. Actaully, it wasn't until around 2005 that NEC stopped making NEC-PC9821xxx machines and machine parts. They did so to support the installed base of these machines. I have a PC9821Ra in my garage, as a matter of fact (I'm only blessed with 400MHz). It is my LAN media server. The PC98-NX is a wintel compatible machine that has only PC98 brand-name because it is so popular in Japan. Up until recently, pc98 was the second most popular platform that FreeBSD had. I don't have recent data (the info I have is from 2003), but suspect that it has slipped to third behind amd64. Telling all these long-term die-hard users, who helped to build FreeBSD popularity in Japan to take a hike would be very damaging to the project. WarnerReceived on Fri Apr 06 2007 - 19:57:28 UTC
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