On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:20:35PM -0500, David Woyciesjes wrote:

Sure.. that has been the case for a long time. Intel Ireland ran
OpenVMS CI-clusters, might date back to the VAX days.

If you want the utmost in stability (and you do want that for a wafer fab)
VMS outdoes the competition (yes, also Unix competition!)

Wilko

> Here's some ammo for the anti-Intel folks...
> 
> ---   David A Woyciesjes
> ---   C & IS Support Specialist
> ---   Yale University Press
> ---   mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu
> ---   (203) 432-0953
> ---   ICQ # - 905818
> 
> 
> ! -----Original Message-----
> ! From: Grant Bechler [mailto:GrantB@plaid.com]
> ! Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 12:35 PM
> ! To: AlphaNT Mailing List
> ! Subject: [alphant] Intel's dependent on the Alpha chip (From the
> ! inquirer)
> ! 
> ! 
> ! Howdy All,
> ! 
> ! I thought that Aaron would get a kick out of this article
> ! 
> ! http://213.219.40.69/01110105.htm
> ! 
> ! "WE WONDERED WHY DOUG BUSCH, the IT manager at Intel, went 
> ! all coy on us
> ! yesterday when we asked about the systems running in its factories
> ! (fabrication plants) and a little bit of investigation has 
> ! revealed the
> ! answer.
> ! Its fabs are heavily dependent on Alpha microprocessors and 
> ! run OpenVMS to
> ! ensure that blue screens of death or glitches in its own 
> ! chips don't bring
> ! the production lines down..."
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