Clark Morris wrote:

>The Tandem series successors are now on Intel Xeon or Itanium chips

>depending on the line and with HPE as of today, July 5, 2018.

 

Correct. The HPE NonStop X is the Xeon version. Easy for us IBM old-timers
to remember: X = x86. The Itanium Kittson was the last version of IA64,
released in 2017.

 

Too bad-Itanium was interesting, just turned out to be the answer to a
question nobody asked.

 

And:

>I'm surprised that HPE/non-stop hasn't gotten a larger market share.

 

Well, they're also the answer to a question most people haven't asked. Those
who have seem mostly to be as committed to the platform as the average IBM Z
shop. I've been to some NonStop user group meetings (still often with the
"T" in the name, like MATUG - formerly Mid-Atlantic Tandem User Group, now
"Technology" instead of "Tandem") and they feel just like mainframe groups:
buncha old guys like me sitting around, all have known each other for
decades. The only difference was that I had even less idea than usual what
they were talking about!


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