[Info-vax] Itanium in the news (NOT)

[JF Mezei]

Marc Van Dyck wrote:

> buy Itanium systems to run OpenVMS or Unix, full stop. And I'm very
> surprised to hear that the windows kit for Itanium hasn't met the same
> fate yet.

Microsoft has close ties with Intel. So there may have been some
negotations which resulted in Intel adding MS needed features in the
8086  in exchange for MS providing token support for that IA64 thing.

Remember that only a subset of MS software runs on IA64.