On 16 Jun 1999 11:06:46 +0200 
 Torbjorn Granlund <tege@swox.com> wrote:

 > NetBSD no longer works on important machines, but www.netbsd.org claims
 > otherwise.  I have run NetBSD on my Alphas and Macintoshes for several
 > years, but 1.4 just panics on all machines I have tried so far.  My and
 > other people's bug reports are silently ignored.

What do you mean?  I haven't heard a single bug report from you regarding
crashes on Alpha systems.  (And, I read the port-alpha list pretty thoroughly,
considering that I do most of my development work on Alphas.)

 > Therefore, please stop claiming support for Alpha PC164LX and similar
 > systems, as well as support for Macs such as the 9600.  I get reports in
 > private mail that there are identical panics for many other Mac systems too.
 > (My macppc install instructions are used by many people, and then I get
 > report about the install failures.)
 > 
 > NetBSD 1.4 is the first NetBSD release I have come across that has caused me
 > any problems whatsoever.  All previous releases have worked great.  But
 > NetBSD 1.4 fails to operate at all on the systems I have tried so far.

Fails to operate HOW?

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>