[ILUG] Out of Memory

[Liam Bedford]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of David
> Murphy
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 3:11 PM
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Out of Memory
> 
> 
> Quoting <20000306150300.Y16557 at slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com>
> by lbedford at wbtsystems.com:
> 
> > Given that GNU/Linux already boots on itanium, isn't being first to
> > market with an OS for it a bit passe? :)
> 
> "First to market" probably has more to do with having a finished
> product than having something booting on the hardware (Gee, don't you
> think maybe Sun have itanium-bootable Solaris too?). Even if anyone
> puts out an itanium-ready distribution today, it doesn't mean much
> without the hardware to run it on.
It was something of joke really.. but the hardware is already out there...
probably only with Tier 1 distributors, but they have it alright...

IIRC, Linux even booted in the Itanium emulator that Intel had..

L.