“Intel has started the next phase of making its upcoming Itanium
processor a real product, shipping prototype computers with the
chip to hardware and software makers for product design and
debugging….”
“Over the last few months, companies such as IBM, HP and Sun
announced their success in porting their operating systems to
samples of Itanium processors. Microsoft Windows and Linux were the
first two types of OSes that successfully ran on the chip. IBM was
next, followed by HP, with Sun bringing up the rear….”
“The operating system landscape simplified with the decision
by Compaq not to translate its Tru64 version of Unix to Itanium and
by SGI’s decision to use Linux, not its own Irix operating
system. In addition, the versions of Unix from IBM, Santa Cruz
Operation and Sequent are being rolled into one edition code-named
Monterey-64.”