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68k is dead.


Don't know why your getting downvoted since OpenBSD killed the 68K port in 5.1.


maybe that a statement like "xxx is dead" is perhaps too much in line to the bully joke "bsd is dead" that was prominent from linux jocks many years ago, more mature nowadays and not seen that `joke` in a while myself (though don't read /. much these days either).

Also when the the CPU is still in use today in places, again hardly constructive and with that probably the glibness of the whole statement without qualifiers that found disfavour.


In the context of the conversation, it was a true statement about OpenBSD's supported platforms (mvme68k was discontinued in 5.5, mac68k in 5.1). Also, given the parent of the post was being a bit rude to a specific person, its an appropriate response.

Using the old slashdot troll against a BSD person is a new one.

> Also when the the CPU is still in use today in places, again hardly constructive and with that probably the glibness of the whole statement without qualifiers that found disfavour.

Its not in use by OpenBSD which is the topic of conversation


I've been writing m68k asm code and building gcc-based toolchains until two months ago for the computer architecture exam.




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