Re: New itaniums out at 2.5x perform gain



Bill Gunshannon wrote:


We aren't talking about 1990. It was as recently as 2004-2005 that
we were once again reminded that the x86 architecture was deficient
and unsuitable for VMS. They weren't talking about your beloved
8086 (which has been dead for decades!) they were talking about
current x86 architecture. Again, I am not saying it can't be done,
only that if you were waiting for VMS Engineering to "look" at it,
they have and repeatedly said it didn't meet their requirements.

In his last interview with Terry Shannon, Mark Gorham said that a port to X64 was feasable but not in current plans. Terry pointed that out explicitly as a change in previously used wording.

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Alan Greig
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