[Info-vax] x86-64-based Superdomes on the way (says HP)

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:

> 
> If HP-UX VMS and Tandem customers do want their OS to make it to the
> 8086,  now is the time for those customers to get together and make a
> VERY PUBLIC statement that they want HP to port teir OS to x86. Only by
> publicly denying Bartlett's "customers don't want it" will HP change its
> mind.

You do know better than HP what their customers want?
What if "those customers" are satisfied with their Itanic
systems, as long as they just stay alive long enough to move
the apps to Linux/x86?

> 
> As it stands, the death sensence has now been announced for those 3 OSs.
>

The HP guy said the opposite.


> When Tukwila came out, HP didn't bother with performance tests. If
> Poulson ends up being as unimpressive compared to whatever 8086 will be
> available at the same time, then it will make it quite easy for HP and
> Intel toannounce the end of IA64.

The main performance advantage of Itanic is that it can run
HP-UX, VMS, NSK, seamlessly. No other chip can do that.

> In 2004, when LaCarly and Intel announced the 64 bit 8086 with the CSI
> (now Quickpath), I had prediced the end of IA64 by 2007 when those would
> come out. I was wrong.

By 4+ years.

> But now, it appears the end of the line for IA64
> is coming.

Well, given your "predictive power", the EOL would be long after 2015,
enough time to move apps to other platforms. No need to port.