[Info-vax] Life after Digital

[Neil Rieck]

On Nov 8, 6:04 pm, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Nov 8, 6:25 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> > On Nov 7, 6:21 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
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> > [...snip...]
>
> > > 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.

Good to know (I wonder how much it costs). I wonder if Microsoft
provides development tools for Windows on Itanium.

NSR