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First OpenVMS Boot On IA64

Posted by chrisd on from the hp-isn't-so-bad-I-guess dept.

vaxzilla writes "At 3:31pm EST on Friday, January 31st, 2003, OpenVMS for the Intel IA64 architecture successfully booted and ran a DIR command. The Intel Itanium family of processors is the third architecture supported by OpenVMS in its 25 year history. Originally it ran on Digital Equipment Corporation VAX systems; in the early 1990s, support was added for the DEC Alpha processors. Following the acquisition of DEC by Compaq, and more recently Compaq by HP, the Itanium and Itanium2 port of OpenVMS is now being undertaken by HP. Congratulations on a job well done to the folks at ZK03 in Nashua, NH!"

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  1. 64 bit architecture: illusionary performance by unterderbrucke · · Score: -1, Troll

    64 bit does not mean a thing. 99.99999999999999% of software today does NOT run on it, and the performance difference in mhz between 32 bit and 64 bit processors (especially in the north bridge) makes any performance gained by using 64 bit architecture negligible.

    As usual, great tool for the server companies, crap for everyone else in the world.

  2. Sad news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

  3. Add one to the list by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    OpenVMS is dead
    Sun is dying???
    BeOS is dead
    BSD is dead
    SCO is dead

    Linux lives on.

  4. why VMS? by linuxislandsucks · · Score: 0, Troll

    I talk form personal exp on vax/vms druing my stint at Purdue University during 1990s..

    Considering that VAX/VMS sucks when compared to unix..why?

    Remember the architecture person for both VAX/VMS and winNT is the same damn idiot....

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  5. But all their hard work was lost! by RandomHavoc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Too late they realized that they had forgotten to implement a shutdown command or even a copy command and the filesystem was corrupted when they turned the power off.

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    But then again I thought VCR+ was a stupid idea and would die a quick death--so what do I know?
  6. Re:Modern VMS applications? by VoidEngineer · · Score: 0, Troll

    This question was asked elsewhere on this post... VMS is optimised, at the very least, for fourier wave analysis... Having a 64 bit processor could make MRI scans faster and potentially have higher resolutions, as the data packets wouldn't need to be 'thunked'.

    We want VMS on new hardware, so that radiologists can more quickly and more accurately diagnose things like cancers and musculo-skeletal trauma.

    New MRI scanners run on VMS these days... (although there is a push to migrate to Windows, because all the PACS are Windows... a processess in which this Itanium port is probably going to be a stepping stone...)