Re: Again seems history repeating itself
> Sun, as a competitor was not involved in Itanium.
Bullshit.
Yes, Sun was involved in Itanium. Sun had a port of Solaris to Itanium, back then.
Several groups ported operating systems for the architecture, including Microsoft Windows, OpenVMS, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris,Tru64 UNIX, and Monterey/64. The latter three were canceled before reaching the market. By 1997, it was apparent that the IA-64 architecture and the compiler were much more difficult to implement than originally thought, and the delivery timeframe of Merced began slipping.
Which means Sun had an Itanium compiler. A.k.a. the Sun compiler. You can read the long list of contemporary references to Solaris Itanium on the Wikipedia page.
As usual, after promising everything under the Sun (pun intended), Sun backed out of their commitments to deliver Solaris Itanium, because of SPARC.
Just like Sun had a port of Solaris to IBM PowerPC, and backed out at the last minute, again:
Solaris 2.5.1 included support for the PowerPC platform (PowerPC Reference Platform), but the port was canceled before the Solaris 2.6 release. [ ... ] A port of Solaris to the Intel Itanium architecture was announced in 1997 but never brought to market.
I still don't see how Itanium is of any relevance to AMD, or vice-versa. AMD was never part of the consortium that worked on Itanium.
Sadly, ElReg seems to have been overrun by clueless bullshit artists who will write just about anything to promote falsehoods.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
