[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/29/2021 12:09 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 2:07:36 PM UTC+13, dgso... at gmail.com wrote:
>> Itanium: The CPU was a dud. Support was dropped after Windows Server 2008 R2
>> because no one cared about Itanium.
> 
> I remember Intel saying that the first OS they got to boot on the
> first Itanium processor was Linux. And even after Microsoft Windows
> Server for Itanium began dropping in feature completeness behind
> Windows Server for x86, Linux continued to offer updated support. And
> that support didn’t actually end until this year. So on Itanium,
> Linux was first on, and last to abandon ship.
Linux kernel dropped support for Itanium in 2021.

But Redhat dropped support for Itanium in 2010 same year as Microsoft.

Linux kernel is not a business.

Redhat is a business like Microsoft so they act like a business aka
drop support when there is no longer any significant demand.

Arne