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

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On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 12:55 +0100, John Dallman 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.

Trouble with PHBs, is that they tend to look at the bottom line and
profits rather than long term planning. 
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