[Info-vax] Poulson info from Dave Cantor

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:
> BTW, I think May or early June 2011 will be the 10th anniversary of
> first boot of Windows on that IA64 thing. (You will recall it happened
> just before the murder of Alpha).
> 
> So if there were 10 year commitments to subsidize this expensive low
> volume proprietary chip, 

were there?

> it might end there.

And how about VAX support promised through 2010?
http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/vax/

> If HP ends up funding IA64,

do they fund it?
I think they buy the chips regularly from intel.

> Intel will gladly continue as long as Intel
> itself doesn.t lose money. 

if they would lose money they'd stopped it
long ago. Unless the penalty for
breaching contracts with HP is higher.

> (aka: Intel doesn't care if Ia64 is not
> profitable as long as HP funds it).

Intel doesn't need Itanic,
HP needs it, unless they intend to ditch
their BCS division.