[Info-vax] OpenVMS I64 V8.1 "Evaluation Release"?

[Dennis Grevenstein]

Michael Kraemer <m.kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
>  
> Not just a rumour, it really existed (5.0 or so) and for a short period of
> time IBM sold a few Itanics. 
> Istr they even built a supercomputer with them for NCSA. 
> But they were smart enough
> to recognize it wouldn't become a success, 
> so both hardware and software was canned.
> Too bad I didn't order a copy back then, it really would be
> a curiosity by now, joining the ranks of Solaris/PPC, OS2/PPC etc.

At least Solaris 2.5.1/PPC was a real product.
IBM sure was right not to abandon their PPC platform.

>> I sometimes wonder what might have happened if AMD
>> had not come up with x86_64.
> 
> That's like speculating how history would have developped 
> in a parallel universe.

Sure, but IA64 had a chance to take over serious x86 market share,
because the old x86 was only a 32bit platform
I'm not saying that VMS would be much more popular. I'm just
saying that it wasn't nessecarily a bad idea to get into the IA64
market back then.

Dennis

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