[Info-vax] Life after Digital

[John Wallace]

On Nov 8, 6:25 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Nov 7, 6:21 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> [...snip...]
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> > And from a personal point of view, VMS skills are a "legacy" liability
> > and I need to acquire marketable Unix skills/experience.
>
> I hear you. I recently did a job search in Waterloo Region and no one
> was looking for OpenVMS (even though I know they use it at Toyota
> Manufacturing and Home Hardware's Canada-wide warehouse). Everyone
> wanted Linux or Solaris.
>
>
>
> > Also, xserve gives me a 64 bit quadcore 8086 with quickpath which should
> > last me a number of years and can be used to boot modern OS's including
> > Linux or <cough> even Windows</cough>.   This technology isn't even
> > available on IA64 yet and not even sure how many years before it is
> > affordable.
>
> You are correct about Windows but Linux runs on IA64
>
> http://www.ia64-linux.org/machines/
>
> It does seem like Core i7 is getting the lion's share of the
> industry's attention.
>
> NSR

Are folk here saying that Windows doesn't run on IA64? It does, you
know:
http://www.microsoft.com/servers/64bit/itanium/overview.mspx

However, you can't do very much useful with it because you can't get
any IA64 apps or IA64 drivers, much the same as life used to be with
NT/Alpha.

And if you want "support", you obviously need both OS vendor and HW
vendor to agree to provide support.

Not really a goer, is it. But technically speaking, it can in theory
be done.