On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:50:52AM -0500, der Mouse wrote: > >> Over 15 years ago NetBSD had a possibility to take everyone into > >> account [...] > > So what you are arguing is that MI needn't be so much MI anymore, and > > that supporting anything more than mainstream today is more to be > > considered a lucky accident than a desired goal? > > Looks to me like pretty much exactly what pooka was saying. > > > Oh well! I guess I should go away now. > > And me, and everyone else running anything but x86_64 (and, maybe, > i386; I don't know whether that's sufficiently modern to count). > > Compilers that page themselves to death unless given over twice the RAM > a uV2 maxes out at. Decisions driven by "a megabyte of disk costs > what, $0.00008?". Now this. > > bqt, wanna start a fork? Looks as though NetBSD no longer supports > most of the architectures it used to.
That idea could have merit.