[Info-vax] Poulson at hot-chips 2011

Michael Kraemer M.Kraemer at gsi.de
Mon Aug 29 22:23:01 EDT 2011


MG schrieb:
> On 26-8-2011 19:15, JF Mezei wrote:
> 
>> When Pfeiffer/Compaq got Digital, it appears he canned the porting of
>> Digical Unix to IA64 since he wanted a renewed focus on Alpha and
>> started the porting of NSK to Alpha.
> 
> 
> In a document from Intel, from 1999, I read that Compaq was involved
> with an UNIX operating system called "Bravo."  In one article I read
> that it was the codename of what was to become formerly known as
> "Digital UNIX"...  So, could it be that they were still working on
> it, but under a different name?
> 

Bravo was the version/evolution of Digital Unix meant to run
on Merced, Itanic's first incarnation.
That was back then, when Itanic appears to be the future of IT
and even IBM had a prototype version of AIX for it.




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