Re: It is almost certain now, INTEL will have 64bit x86 !!

From: Keith Parris (keithparris_NOSPAM_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/13/04 

Date: 13 Feb 2004 07:34:19 -0800

JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com> wrote in message news:<4029B0F9.26F21AB7@istop.com>...
> Of course, the minute Intel announces that the 8086 will have lockstep, it
> will be a very loud and clear messages that IA64 is going down the drain since
> if Tandem/NSK goes 8086, so will HPUX and VMS.

The NonStop folks have been very busy bees lately. Besides booting
NonStop on Itanium, they've developed the new NonStop Advanced
Architecture which no longer requires lockstep in CPUs or special disk
hardware -- they've figured out a way to get the same benefits on
industry-standard hardware. (Just like VMS has been doing.) Take a
look, starting at http://h71033.www7.hp.com/object/NSADVARCNW.html