ES40 alphas to rx2660 and rx6600 Itaniums. -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whining...
Yeah? Cool. What vintage Alpha and what model itanium? I think HP may be the single largest distributor of them outside of Intel, if not even larger. Of course, HP was a significant contributor to their development with Intel... I think there's some PA-RISC lineage in it. -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 8:51 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Whining... > > I like our Itaniums. We're running HP-UX on them and those machines are > fast. Migrated from Tru-64 on Alphas and saw run times on jobs reduced > from 4 hours to 23 minutes. Oh yeah, we like our Itaniums... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:24 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Whining... > > I wonder when Itanium will finally be killed off. > > When it goes, the last _DIRECT_ lineage from Alpha goes away. > > -sc > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:12 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Whining... > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Matthew W. Ross > <mr...@ephrataschools.org> wrote: > > In fear of taking this topic waaay of course... > > I'm not really sure it had much of a proper topic to begin with. :) > > > There was a version of Windows XP for Itanium. > > No kidding. I didn't know that. What was it good for? There's no > x86 compatibility on the Itanium, right? So almost no software. I guess > maybe you could open *really big* files in Notepad... ;-) > > > Ever see 127 USB devices plugged into the same root USB port? > > Hah! > > Hmmm, a few of these would come in handy: > > http://thepirata.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/49_port_usb_hub_01- > 499x3 > 33.jpg > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
