[Info-vax] Poulson at hot-chips 2011

[John Reagan]

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote in message 
news:4e56d4c7$0$2329$c3e8da3$76a7c58f at news.astraweb.com...
> JF Mezei wrote:
>> John Reagan wrote:
>>
>>> My interpretation was for the Digital/Intel patent agreement, there was 
>>> no
>>> agreement or discussion for moving Tru64 to IA64.
>
>
> You may wish to look at:
>
> http://www.vaxination.ca/vms/Digital-Intel-1997-Agreement.pdf
>
> This document is scanned, so I can't cut/paste text. But the porting of
> Digital Unix to IA64 is blatantly there and very specificly stated
> multiple times. Dec was also to help Microsoft port windows to IA64.
>

Very interesting.  I never saw that document.  I know that the GEM team was 
targeting IA-64 for Windows NT, but I wasn't aware of the DIGITAL UNIX 
connection (and I was in the larger compiler group).  It could have been 
kept secret from me, but if it was in a public document has you have, I'd 
expect not.  Perhaps my memory is that bad?

Seriously, I only saw early versions of Tru64 on IA-64 during the same 
timeframe as OpenVMS on IA-64.  Not before.

John