“Hewlett-Packard Company today unveiled its plans to
incorporate Intel’s Merced processor into its high-end server
product lines by mid-2000. HP’s system architecture expertise,
coupled with IA-64’s parallel processing, will make these servers
ideal e-services platforms, addressing the needs of the high-end
computing environment.”
“HP intends to support HP-UX(1), the 64-bit version of Microsoft
Windows, and Linux on its Merced systems, and MPE/iX on its future
IA-64 systems.”
“Customers’ existing PA-RISC applications can run unchanged on
Merced and future IA-64 systems due to HP’s collaboration with
Intel on the 64-bit instruction set architecture. In addition,
IA-32 applications will also run unchanged on the Merced-based
systems.”