Courtland asks:
> What was said of the status of IA64 for MPE?    I don't know of an
> official status report since 1998.

Work would appear to be well underway on that project though obviously their
focus at the moment is the N class stuff which is also a prerequisite for
IA-64 since IA-64 will arrive first in the N boxes most likely.

On Dave Snow's roadmap IA-64 was listed as "after 2003", which is about what
one would expect considering the delays in IA-64 and the fact that Superdome
won't have IA-64 until some time in 2002.

There's plenty of headroom in PA-RISC between now and then (and even
afterwards it sounds like) so there's no particular hurry that I can see in
wanting to get MPE on IA-64.

From the user's point of view, IA-64 probably isn't going to be a big deal.
MPE will still be MPE and I would not expect that many user-visible changes
as a result of the IA-64 transition.

G.