Re: R: obsoleting nextstep?

Guido Serassio wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Da: Kinkie [mailto:gkinkie_at_gmail.com]
>> Inviato: mercoledì 25 novembre 2009 12.50
>> A: Squid Developers
>> Oggetto: RFC: obsoleting nextstep?
>>
>> Hi all,
>> just like SunOS: NextStep's last version (3.3) was released in
>> 1995, which means 15 years before the expected release date of 3.2 .
>> How about dropping support for it?
>>
>
> +1

+1.

Does 10 years obsolete sound like a good cutoff maximum age for special
OS handling code?

>
> And there are some other candidate:
> - *m88k*, I think the Motorola 88000 systems are no more available ...

The originals yes. But there appears to be a fan club maintaining active
OS ports as late as last year. The *m88k* pattern also matches some
fairly new Motorola-built hardware those people are porting for.

  -1.

> - alpha-dec-osf4.*, is the very old DEC OSF 4.x, while latest is HP True64 5.x (alpha-dec-osf5.*)
> - alpha-dec-osf3 .....

+0.

>
> And to be investigated:
> - powerpc-ibm-aix4.1.*

Going by the wikipedia timeline anything 4.x or lower was released
10yrs+ ago. Not sure about there obsolescence dates though. Likely to be
as only 5 years or less.

We have active AIX users so this one needs to be careful.

+1. On grounds of being very old with a newer supported equivalent.

> - *-pc-sco3.2*

+1 kill.

> - *-sony-newsos[56]*

+1. Last mentioned by that name in a press release 14 years ago. Much
more talk and use of Squid on the various Linux flavors built for the PS3.
I believe they come under GNU/Linux tags.

The alternate tags news([78]|1[58])00 and news86k appear to be supported
through NetBSD.

Another candidate:
  *-univel-sysv4.2MP - Original SysV by the looks of it.

Amos

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