[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[John Dallman]

In article <tsu4mu$fuk$2 at reader2.panix.com>,
cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:

> x86_64 didn't exist when this was happening.  It came in
> 2000 or so.

2003. The timing is important, because by then it was clear to alert
organisations that Itanium was a turkey, and they were ready to consider
something else. HP's insistence on sticking with Itanium finished off VMS
in the technical and scientific fields. 

John