Re: Itanic industrial mistake
I think you do remember correctly regarding MPE and Itanium, but I cannot remember where I once read about the limited work that was done on the possibility. As it is, there's no doubt that because MPE was never released on Itanium, it had no role in the lifecycle of Itanium in the 21st century. In fact MPE ran so well on PA-RISC that as far as I know it was not released on any servers more powerful than the N-class (or RP7400?) in the early 2000s, and therefore not on the PA-RISC versions of SuperDome.
It's ironic that HP went on to release OpenVMS on Itanium, after the Compaq merger (Compaq I think had initiated that port) and continued selling that combination, bearing in mind that VMS had been a major competitor for MPE.
Although VMS is therefore relevant to the lingering on of Itanium, another significant factor is perhaps the fact that no port of HP-UX to x86 or x86-64 has ever been released.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
