RE: Why did VMS users go along with the itanium farce?

From: Larry Kilgallen (Kilgallen_at_SpamCop.net)
Date: 09/30/05


Date: 30 Sep 2005 07:54:50 -0500

In article <FD827B33AB0D9C4E92EACEEFEE2BA2FB70BFB2@tayexc19.americas.cpqcorp.net>, "Main, Kerry" <Kerry.Main@hp.com> writes:

> Thx for all the history, but I was specifically referring to JF's
> assertion that Intel and HP had decided to relegate Itanium to the
> supercomputer or in your case "high end".
>
> If any business system from 2-128cpu's is what JF and you refer to high
> end or supercomputers, then so be it. You are correct that that is what
> Intel and HP have decided to "limit" IA64 to.

Another viewpoint is that the term "high end" refers to any system not
running Microsoft Windows.



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