[cctalk] Old UNIX Systems

Perhaps in the sense that you got to my note and hit 'reply', but a rant about patching embedded systems, out-of-tree development and how everyone in management is stupid doesn't strike me as a reply to NetBSD dropping 803886 support because no one stepped up to take on the task. If that's a direct response, then all I can do is avoid eye contact, back slowly away and repeat "there's still no one, before or after support was dropped, for all the years that anyone could, who's taken on the job of keeping it in the tree, and that's the only reason it doesn't exist". I'm sure you'll find reason to dispute that, but I don't see taking the time to puzzle out the entrails of your inevitable reply for actual meaning. To be fair, you have a lot of standard dismissive lines: for Windows users, for people who don't much care about what processor their tool works on, for programmers who use a programming language you don't approve of, for management and a cornucopia of other ones. It is hard to keep track, but this is pretty clearly the one for people who you think don't understand embedded systems. We've seen it a lot in this thread. Well, given the frequency you feel the need to remind us, not like I could miss it. And, admittedly, I've not trotted out my experience to bludgeon anyone who disagrees with me. So, how could you possibly not lecture me like a schoolboy. So...point taken. KJ