> On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> >
> > Also note, that Alpha, however well-engineered, is dying.
> > VMS will be ported (is being ported?) to Itanium, and Tru64 Unix
> > will probably be replaced with Linux or unified with HP/UX.
>
> Compaq P.R. promised some sort of compatibility for executables meant
> to run on Tru64, with Linux. AFAIK, Linux is the future OS for their
> computers, and they already offer Linux support.
>
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>
> There are only 10 types of people in the world-
> Those who understand binary, and those who do not.
>
As far as I know in the past their policy was that Linux is an
entrant level OS for Unix on their machines. Once you are there they
will try to convert you to Tru64. For example, Tru64 is able to run
their native compiler for which they will show you many benchmarks that
prove how much it is superior comparing to gcc.
Having some sort of computability for Linux executable to run on
Tru64 seems to me another mean of persuasion to get you from Linux to
Tru64.
I don't know if their policy was not changed in the mean time.
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