[Info-vax] HP Users Hope Whitman Can Persuade Oracle to Change Itanium Decision

[JF Mezei]

John Wallace wrote:

> Reasonably widely understood is the fact that today's x86-64 chips and
> systems don't actually yet address the high end IA64 market - the
> ultra-massive-memory, ultra-massive-SMP systems that presumably some
> customers are paying good money for. 


Considering that the 8086 shares the same memory subsystem as IA64, does
IA64 have any advantage over the 8086 ?

Just because HP has decided to not build "mainframe" class 8086s does
not mean that the current chips are not able to scale to that size. This
could be a business decision as opposed to a technical one.