[Info-vax] Poulson at hot-chips 2011
Michael Kraemer
M.Kraemer at gsi.de
Fri Aug 26 02:54:32 EDT 2011
John Reagan schrieb:
>
> My interpretation was for the Digital/Intel patent agreement, there was no
> agreement or discussion for moving Tru64 to IA64. Why would there be?
> Digital was still doing Alpha. It only got rid of its fabs, not the
> product. Any discussion of porting Tru64 and OpenVMS to IA64 came with the
> Compaq/Intel agreement.
But this is in stark contrast to what all press releases
of that time say.
DEC agreed to use IA64 in the future (with the logical implication
to drop the Alpha), and as a first step would port Tru64 (still
named DEC Unix at that time) to that new chip.
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