Intel Itanium

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:37 PM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> From a bit of googling, it seem only HP unix support it now.  That
> kind of making it hard to ever be profitable.  And if Intel do axe it
> eventually, what happen to HP Unix considering it seem to only run on
> Itanium at the moment?

VMS was ported to Itanium, too, so there's still a niche there, albeit
rather small :-).

It's not entirely surprising that HP would be the last remaining
partner holding on, as they were the first ones to give up on their
architecture (PA-RISC) in favor of Intel's oncoming IA-64 platform,
and all indications are that they had some influence on what initially
went into it.
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