On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 01:12 -0700, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:

> Back around early Solaris 9 when Sun was talking about dropping
> support for x86, I know I said more than once (and can't have been
> the only one!) that a port is an insurance policy, particularly when
> running on a minority CPU architecture.

OS X is a recent case in point...  "Stop shipping PPC machines?  No
problem, we've been secretly building and testing this x86 version all
along anyway"...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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