> > > In Linux and BSD, _nothing_ ever goes away.
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> >
> >  Not true, unfortunately, Suse Linux dropped support for the Alpha
> >  awhile back. FreeBSD is dropping support for the Alpha.
> 
> Suse and FreeBSD are not the whole of "Linux and BSD"

So?  Going away is going away.

If you need feature Foo on an Alpha and only FreeBSD (or Suse) has
feature Foo then support has gone away and you're stuck.

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> there's plenty
> of your core market that is running older hardware, and there are plenty
> of distributions for them to use.

I have older hardware.  I have hardware that Linux will never support.
I have hardware that not even Net "Would you like toast with that?" BSD
will ever support.

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> I believe all of my systems are currently AGP for video, though. And
> AMD CPUs (I have been distrustful of Intel ever since the P60 incident,
> and the digital snitch CPUs didn't make me happy either).

I'm not familiar with the "P60" or "digital snitch" problems.  Intel has
way too many bugs for my poor little brain to keep track of.  I've known
since ~1979 that Intel didn't care about its customers and that's all I
need to know.  Rest assured that no Intel CPUs are converting electricity
into heat and incorrect answers here.

Hmmmm, this has drifted a bit far from the OGP.  I'd better cool it
before I have to stay after school and write an APL to Verilog translator.
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