[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-04 08:43:36 +0000, John Wallace said:

> 
> Thanks, I'll have a proper read of the Kanter article when I get time,
> especially the bits on "reliability" and "scalability"; words which we
> have heard in this context so many times in the past, typically with
> little real substance. So on those subjects I'll particularly be
> looking for features in IA64 which do not have equivalents in AMD64.

The RAS marketing can certainly look like "magic pixie dust" sometimes. 
 I've posted a RAS table <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/95> where I 
could find comparable features listed in the then-current Intel x86 
Xeon server processors, and the Itanium processors.   If you find any 
more of those features from Poulson (or RAS features from AMD, for that 
matter) please let me know, and I'll update the table.


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