5 Aug
2006
5 Aug
'06
12:04 p.m.
On Saturday 05 August 2006 14:37, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Are you talking about VAX or OpenVMS? VAX is a
hardware platform,
last sale date was prior to 9/11 (IIRC either '99 or 2000). Though I
think the last chips were made prior to that. The last sale date for
Alpha is this year. For OpenVMS Itanium is the way forward. Don't
let the press, and various "experts" fool you, the current Itanium 2
is a very nice CPU. OpenVMS runs on all three of these CPU families.
Just imagine how WONDERFUL it'd be if an Itanium 2 box could run MacOS
Classic.
(Sorry, couldn't resist..)
Pat
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