[Info-vax] Intel Announces 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" multi-core CPU Chips

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/28/2022 7:55 AM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <th1c3i$1a6r$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
> wrote:
>> What is important is that VMS is good CPU wise - there will
>> come out new CPU's approx. every year going forward. No waiting
>> forever on Itanium models that get years and years delayed.
> 
> Are there any statistics on the rate at which customers abandoned VMS
> over the last couple of decades? It was clear by about 2007 that Itanium
> was not going to conquer the world. Since HP were sticking with it, and
> Alpha was out of production, that was the point at which a long-term
> hardware problem for VMS would have been visible to the far-sighted.

I have no doubt that the number of VMS systems has declined the last
20 years:
- uncertainty about future HW
- lack of commitment from HP(E)
- lack of enhancements
- lack of third party software

VSI has solved 2 of them. 2 to go. :-)

HP(E) and VSI must have specific numbers, but I am sure that they
don't want to share.

Arne