Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:45:46PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
 > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 07:37:04PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > >  > I would argue that this has happened already - FreeBSD and NetBSD are
 > >  > the results...  at least from the outside, this is how it looks like,
 > >  > with FreeBSD focusing on few platforms but modernizing itself quite
 > >  > a bit (kernel preempting, zfs, ...) and NetBSD focusing on "it runs
 > >  > everywhere".
 > > 
 > > Yes, see, this is the problem. "It runs everywhere" now means "it is
 > > an OS for junkyard machines". That was never the intent when that was
 > > NetBSD's market positioning, 15+ years ago. Nor is it the reality now.
 > 
 > This is not what I said "for junkyard machines".  It does run on amd64
 > as well, after all :-)
 > 
 > But you can't really argue the point that priorities are quite different
 > here - "focused on portability, really good cross-build system, etc."
 > vs. "newest features and maximum efficiency on modern hardware".

Yes, I can. That's all market positioning from 15-20 years ago; it has
little or no current relevance, either for NetBSD or FreeBSD.

 > and until someone shows
 > up and asks us about supporting yet another OpenBSD offshot, I'm not going 
 > to care.

Fair enough :-)

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David A. Holland
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