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

[John Wallace]

On Dec 22, 10:43 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 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.

JF, please do try not to call industry standard 64bit architectures
"8086". The architecture which has wiped the floor with Intel's IA64
should more respectfully be called AMD64. AMD invented it (at least
the intersting bits that make it 64bit enterprise-ready), and a very
reluctant Intel were eventually forced to follow, leaving Itanium's
sole selling point (today) the niche market of ultra large memory
single system image SMP systems. Or maybe Itanium is interesting
because of HP-UX or NonStop or VMS. But Itanium itself isn't
interesting to many people, especially not as an x86 follow on of any
kind. AMD64 is that architecture.

Happy New Year!