[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

Neil Rieck wrote:

> Update: I just checked the seminar notes and BL870c was also covered.
> This single blade supports 4-CPU sockets so I'm assuming that a future
> version of this card will support up to 16 Tukwila-based cores


Question then becomes: how much later after the 8086, will IA64 get the
hardware and software to suppport such blade configs.

quickpath + quad core has been available now for over a year on the
8086. IA64 with same features won't be available for another few months
at least.

And while I understand the usefulness of blades in a windows environment
where you need multiple separate instances of Windows to run multiple
applications, I still don't really see the usefullness of blades in an
enterprise OS where you would want separate systems for redundancy
purposes and where you don't need multiple systems to run multiple
applications.