diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cb5a76a..7b64f3c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ LDFLAGS	= `./ldflags`
 
 OBJS	=	arch/${ARCH}/getload.o	\
 		arch/${ARCH}/terminfo.o	\
-		arch/default/homebrews.o
+		${NULL}
 
 # this is what I use most places...
 CC=gcc -pedantic -Wall
diff --git a/arch/Linux/platform.h b/arch/Linux/platform.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f5ffcc..0000000
--- a/arch/Linux/platform.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-/* This file contains platform settings for Linux */
-
-/* at least my Linux box doesn't have ascftime, so we've got to fall back to asctime() */
-#undef	HAVE_ASCFTIME
diff --git a/arch/default/homebrews.c b/arch/default/homebrews.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 07273b5..0000000
--- a/arch/default/homebrews.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-/* some function replacements for platforms that don't have the
- * real things...  *sigh* */
-
-#include <string.h>
-#include <time.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
-
-
-/**********************/
-/***** ascftime() *****/
-/**********************/
-
-#ifndef	HAVE_ASCFTIME
-
-/* our own version of ascftime, since Linux (and others?)
- * doesn't (don't) seem to have it.  For now, this is done in a
- * very klugey way, and it will certainly need to be re-written
- * (to be useful, anyway) if and when there ever become new
- * format strings used by our caller(s). */
-
-int ascftime(char *s, const char *format, const struct tm *timeptr)
-{
-    int	ret;
-
-    /* if we don't have arguments, bail now. */
-    if(!s || !format || !timeptr)
-    {
-    	return(0);
-    }
-
-    *s	= '\0';
-
-    if(strncmp(format, "^%H:%M", 6) == 0)
-    {
-	ret = sprintf(s, "^%02d:%02d",
-	    timeptr->tm_hour, timeptr->tm_min);
-    }
-    else if(strncmp(format, "%T", 2) == 0)
-    {
-	ret = sprintf(s, "^%02d:%02d:%02d",
-	    timeptr->tm_hour, timeptr->tm_min, timeptr->tm_sec);
-    }
-    else
-    {
-	/* indicate failure, since we don't have generic
-	 * compliance for any old format: */
-    	ret	= 0;
-    }
-
-    return(ret);
-}
-
-#endif	/* HAVE_ASCFTIME */
diff --git a/arch/default/platform.h b/arch/default/platform.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 8018943..0000000
--- a/arch/default/platform.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-/* This file contains default platform settings */
-
-/* do we have ascftime()? */
-#define	HAVE_ASCFTIME