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nimish • today at 7:26 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I'm not sure that skipping SPARC is a bad thing. Who even has SPARC machines sitting around to validate builds? Even Fujitsu moved to ARM for their later cores.


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doctorpangloss • today at 7:59 PM

people who are specially interested in packaging and therefore do it for free care about SPARC.

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jitl • today at 8:04 PM

i got a debian maintainer for old IBM mainframes asking me to fix bugs and run tests for that architecture. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ these people exist, but i'm not going to support them. feel free to fork me!