Re: Did someone ask HP for VAX to Itanium cluster possibilities?

From: Michael Unger (unger_at_decus.de)
Date: 10/23/03 

Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:04:14 +0200

On 2003-10-23 08:12, "Keith Parris" wrote:

> [...]
>
> So I'd guess the most risky area is probably code being ripped out on
> Itanium as being no longer necessary to talk with Alpha, but needed to
> talk to VAX. Because HP isn't testing VAXes with Itanium, such as
> case could slip through testing without being noticed. Of course,
> having common code between Alpha and Itanium makes this much more
> unlikely, as it would presumably have to be conditionalized code for
> Itanium only. But you can see how it might be possible.

Thanks for the extensive explanation. Now it is pretty clear to me what
*will* work and what just *might* work and what will be *supported* and
*why*.

Michael 

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