[Info-vax] Message from HP.

[John Reagan]

On Monday, December 9, 2013 10:53:04 AM UTC-5, Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer) wrote:


> - NSK is a funny market, but little, and NSK on x86 is a little bit 
> logical end of NSK : NSK fundamentals were in special constructs of 
> hardware, newNSK on x86 is just special software, no so better than VMS 
> or good unixes, in a word NSK is a short term success,
> 

NSK on Itanium is just software also.  No special hardware.  Well, the ServerNet switch is proprietary [think: Star Coupler].  The Itaniums and rest of system are off-the-shelf.