Re: m68k MacOS target support?

[Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>]

Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:59:02PM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> > So I discussed this with RMS and came up with a obsoletion scheme, where
> > old code is prominently marked as obsolete (by commenting out every
> > line), announced as such in a release, and if nobody has come forward
> > to revive it by the time of the next release, it gets completely removed.
> 
> Personally, I think we ought to immediately nuke all the ports that
> were never updated from gcc 1.x, and that have been commented out in
> the configure file since gcc 2.0.
> 
> Namely: fx80, ns32k-ns-genix, pyramid, tahoe, gmicro.

Of these, I only researched the Pyramid thoroughly enough to determine
that the platform was really and truly dead.  I've been somewhat
conservative, because sometimes we actually hear from someone actively
using a supposedly-vanished type of system.

> There are plenty of others that are also obsolete, but those named
> have had many multiples of years completely and obviously not compiled.

Yeah, they're pretty much just taking up disk space then.

Stan