[Info-vax] Difference(s) bw Itanium and Integrity Servers ?

[Neil Rieck]

On Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 2:56:37 AM UTC-4, DTL wrote:
> Hell Happy Tax Payers,
> 
> Someone woke me up from my retirement (I'm 68 today, yes) to perform some "training" to a French Customer.
> 
> Why not?
> 
> Reading about HP, HPE, VSI and such (Hi Clair, we don't know each other, do we?), I read the 2019 RoadMap and noticed something new (to me): Integrity Servers.
> I found something on WP about it, but the article is not clear.
> An Integrity server is a cluster of Itanium systems?
> Or a new marketing name for Itanium?
> Or what?
> 
> Light appreciated, please.
> Many thanks!
> 
> DTL

If you are teaching from an OpenVMS perspective then this next link "might" help.

http://neilrieck.net/docs/openvms_notes_itanium_diary.html

Why? Our group started working with PDP-11 back in the 1970s (RT-11, RSX-11M and BSD-UNIX) then moved to VAX/VMS, then on to Alpha/OpenVMS, then finally Itanium/OpenVMS. One of my peers became so ticked off when he learned that Itanium had no BIOS, he promptly retired.

:-)

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net