31 Jul
2014
31 Jul
'14
9:40 p.m.
On 7/31/2014 8:13 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
On Jul 31, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Sean Caron <scaron at
umich.edu> wrote:
A possibly long forgotten and pretty useless part of Itanium's promise
was to eliminate x86 by having a useful way to have future OSs on the
platform run x86 binaries. It did run them, but I don't think it was
anywhere near either the P4 which was its contemporary, or the followon
core2 type chips where intel backstepped to the P3 type pipeline.
I think there was talk or thought that that was useful for VMS and also
for windows. I think with HP and Intel's position, they could have
forced microsoft to support that platform in a world where Itanium met
the expectations.
Now about the only thing are the twitching corpses of HPUX and Tandem.
I'll read the article / tea leaves (which have not yet done) to see if
there is any impact on this defection. Really the only thing out there
now is HPUX.
I have a friend who is running her fairly large company on VMS and has
Hurrah! I always wondered why Itanium but never
x86-64. Very excited by
this; the investment in getting it ported over to x86 should guarantee us
many more years of OpenVMS goodness going forward; can't wait to run
OpenVMS on my Atom machines!! ;)
Best,
Sean
When Compaq announced the port to Itanium, x86 was still 32-bit, while
OpenVMS had been running on 64-bit Alpha's for nearly a decade.
Zane from the beginning of VMS. They have gone thru all the
permutations up
to the Itanium (I think she may still be getting an Alpha
supported)
Jim