[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Dan Cross]

In article <memo.20230219222022.11588L at jgd.cix.co.uk>,
John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>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.

You are correct. 2003 was indeed when the first opteron hardware
was avaiable, though AMDs announcement was 1999 and the first
full spec was available in 2000.

Anyway, Linux had already been long robust and available on
32-bit x86 by the time x86_64 came around.

>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. 

100% agreement.

	- Dan C.