Re: [patch] kill off PC9800

From: GOTO Masanori
Date: Sun May 16 2004 - 11:21:33 EST


At Sat, 15 May 2004 23:28:58 -0700,
Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > PC9800 sub-arch is incomplete, hackish (at least in IDE), maintainers
> > don't reply to emails and haven't touched it in awhile.
>
> And the hardware is obsolete, isn't it? Does anyone know when they were
> last manufactured, and how popular they are?

Well NEC PC9800 serires were stopped to manufacture a few years
before. But even so, it seems there're users to use this type of
hardware. There were one Japanese distribution which supported
PC9800. So I wonder it should be really needed to remove.

Regards,
-- gotom

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