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To: bhagavathi who wrote (106208)	7/26/2000 11:36:33 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mula, >If I were CPQ management, I would invest in porting Tru64 to Itanium. Why cut off the extra life line I might get for this OS? I have in other words I would give my Tru64 customers a choice of hardware they want to buy. Not being forced to a given hardware vendor. But again by porting Tru64 to Itanium, CPQ might be shooting the Alpha project all together. Maybe it's your sentence just above that sums it up. Or, Compaq may want to avoid what IBM's been accused of: too many offerings that just confuse the customer. Last but not least, saves money, which Compaq is out to do in their turnaround strategy. Some of all the above went into the decision, I'm sure Tony

To: bhagavathi who wrote (106208)	7/28/2000 3:13:03 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"If I were CPQ management, I would invest in porting Tru64 to Itanium. Why cut off the extra life line I might get for this OS? I have in other words I would give my Tru64 customers a choice of hardware they want to buy. Not being forced to a given hardware vendor." --- No more than we would expect Sun (at this point) to port Solaris to IA64 (or continue development :-)... in Sun's case it is a total solution. UltraSparc and Solaris. In Tru64's case , it probably has a lot to do with superior CPU technology. Never mind the current generation, the EV7 includes on-chip Network Switch and on-chip Memory Controller. The network switch allows for direct CPU to CPU communication (data transfer)... technologies that aren't in McKinley (according to Linley Gwennap anyhow). The EV7 will make for a very good server part by keeping down MB costs with a simplified chipset and with 1.5 MByte L2 on-chip shared CPU to CPU. It isn't much of a stretch to imagine with RAMBUS and hundreds of open pages (feature of on-chip memory controller) a 4 processor EV7 really doesn't need L3 for great performance. Rob