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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-06-12, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

The downside is that UEFI is _way_ too complicated for what it does
and exposes attack surfaces that really should not exist.

Simon.

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