OpenVMS Boots on Itanium on Friday Jan 31

Sue Skonetski

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Jan 31, 2003, 5:23:39 PM1/31/03

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-----Original Message-----

From: Grant, Clair

Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 3:40 PM

To: OpenVMS Systems Software Group

Subject: VMS boots on Itanium

We are please to announce that OpenVMS has booted on an HP i2000 Itanium
system. By successfully executing a DIRECTORY command the official date and
time for the Boot Contest is January 31, 2003 3:31 PM EST.

Many, many people have contributed to this effort, including managers,
supervisors, project leaders, consultants, development infrastructure group,
calling standard committee, engineers working on post-boot projects, etc.
All will receive their well-deserved credit as we proceed. The following is
a very specific set of people; these are the engineers who
designed/wrote/debugged the code that comprises the running operating
system.

list of wonderful engineers removed by Sue Skonetski

Alan Winston - SSRL Admin Cmptg Mgr

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Jan 31, 2003, 5:58:36 PM1/31/03

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Many congratulations!

Whatever anybody thinks about the Itanium strategy, this is a major
accomplishment and an impressive achievement.

-- Alan

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Alan Frisbie

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Jan 31, 2003, 6:24:30 PM1/31/03

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Sue Skonetski wrote:

> We are please to announce that OpenVMS has booted on an HP i2000 Itanium
> system. By successfully executing a DIRECTORY command the official date and
> time for the Boot Contest is January 31, 2003 3:31 PM EST.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE ENGINEERS AND SUPPORT PEOPLE!!!!!

Does Hoff get to sleep in tomorrow morning? :-)

It looks like it happened about five hours earlier than my
guess. Did anyone get closer than that?

My theory was that it would happen on a Friday night, after
all the annoying distractions had gone home and it was
possible to concentrate on those last few bugs.

Alan

John Smith

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Jan 31, 2003, 7:05:22 PM1/31/03

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"Sue Skonetski" <susan.s...@hp.nospam.com> wrote in message
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Great. Now that the contractual obligation to Intel has been
fulfilled, can we all get focused back on Alpha EV8+?

JF Mezei

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Jan 31, 2003, 7:00:07 PM1/31/03

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Sue Skonetski wrote:
> Many, many people have contributed to this effort, including managers,

> list of wonderful engineers removed by Sue Skonetski

Seems to me that the engineers and their caretaker (Sue) would be far more
important and should have been listed well before managers.

Now that they have completed the port, can they can back to improving VMS on
VAX ????? ;-) :-) :-)

Shane Smith

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Jan 31, 2003, 8:17:09 PM1/31/03

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IMHO the fact that managers in OpenVMS engineering contribute to getting
the job done is unique and impressive. Most management types seem to
have the opposite effect...

(Damn, I wish a smiley were appropriate here.)

Shane

Michael Austin

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Jan 31, 2003, 8:59:42 PM1/31/03

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Congratulations!!!
--
Regards,

Michael Austin OpenVMS User since June 1984
First DBA Source, Inc. Registered Linux User #261163
Sr. Consultant http://www.firstdbasource.com

Mark Daniel

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Jan 31, 2003, 10:58:12 PM1/31/03

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Sue Skonetski wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Grant, Clair
>
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 3:40 PM
>
> To: OpenVMS Systems Software Group
>
> Subject: VMS boots on Itanium
>
> We are please to announce that OpenVMS has booted on an HP i2000 Itanium
> system.

8< snip 8<

Many congratulations to VMS Engineering (who in spite of not a few
obstacles and many naysayers have shown, once again, that they can do
whatever they set their minds - and are permitted - to do!)

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Larry Kilgallen

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Jan 31, 2003, 11:18:31 PM1/31/03

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In article <3e3b4...@news.chariot.net.au>, Mark Daniel <Mark....@wasd.vsm.com.au> writes:

> Many congratulations to VMS Engineering (who in spite of not a few
> obstacles and many naysayers have shown, once again, that they can do
> whatever they set their minds - and are permitted - to do!)

Presumably N-5 or so of the crew avoided naysayers by avoiding
comp.os.vms .

JF Mezei

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Jan 31, 2003, 8:03:06 PM1/31/03

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Shane Smith wrote:
>
> IMHO the fact that managers in OpenVMS engineering contribute to getting
> the job done is unique and impressive. Most management types seem to
> have the opposite effect...

Which is why the engineers deserve an ever bigger round of applause since they
managed to boot VMS on an intel chip DESPITE their managers getting involved
:-) :-) ;-)

dcain

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Feb 1, 2003, 5:21:36 AM2/1/03

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Great job, well done.

Richard Maher

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Feb 1, 2003, 8:32:54 AM2/1/03

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Hi,

Well, about bloody time! :-)

Seriously, this is an amazing result! Surely the product of a truly
Herculean effort by all involved. I will be waving this in a lot of people's
faces over the coming months. It's just great to see VMS punching off the
front foot again!!!

Just one small question (from someone who sounds like he still needs to
sleep with the light on) is it safe to say that all the show-stoppers and
architectural issues are now behind us? And the blue-prints have been signed
off? And the rest of the port (although important and still challenging)
will be more on the formulaic side of creativity? Issues like memory
management and access modes long since solved? If the answer is yes then
it's clear that this effort/result is more than anyone could have hoped for
and it's also clear that *somehow* Digital/Compaq/HP has managed to retain
some of the best brains in the world!

> It looks like it happened about five hours earlier than my
> guess. Did anyone get closer than that?

I'll have to find my bit of paper that I chook scrawled my guess on, but I
might have just snuck in there. I think I was either 11:00am or 1:00pm but
if I'd won I'm sure my DS10 would've been delivered already :-) What was the
prize anyway? I'd always wanted a VMS umbrella. (Please BIGGER branding on
these things in future!)

Is there anyway to get a list of guesses or a copy of my own guess? Did we
get mailed with a confirmation?

Cheers Richard Maher.

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Fred Kleinsorge

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Feb 1, 2003, 9:36:33 AM2/1/03

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"Richard Maher" <mahe...@hotspamnotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Well, about bloody time! :-)
>
> Seriously, this is an amazing result! Surely the product of a truly
> Herculean effort by all involved. I will be waving this in a lot of
people's
> faces over the coming months. It's just great to see VMS punching off the
> front foot again!!!
>
> Just one small question (from someone who sounds like he still needs to
> sleep with the light on) is it safe to say that all the show-stoppers and
> architectural issues are now behind us? And the blue-prints have been
signed
> off?

Yes. No showstoppers.

> And the rest of the port (although important and still challenging)
> will be more on the formulaic side of creativity?

Yes/No. Still a bit of work to go. It's be a few weeks before things
become "formulaic"

>Issues like memory
> management and access modes long since solved? If the answer is yes then
> it's clear that this effort/result is more than anyone could have hoped
for
> and it's also clear that *somehow* Digital/Compaq/HP has managed to retain
> some of the best brains in the world!
>

Solved.

Fred Kleinsorge

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Feb 1, 2003, 9:37:44 AM2/1/03

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Your welcome too. Glad you're still grinding the axe.

Bob Ceculski

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Feb 1, 2003, 9:43:48 AM2/1/03

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"Sue Skonetski" <susan.s...@hp.nospam.com> wrote in message news:<b1et1g$1nc$1...@web1.cup.hp.com>...

a new dawn begins ...

Bill Gunshannon

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Feb 1, 2003, 10:10:33 AM2/1/03

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In article <3e3b4...@news.chariot.net.au>,
Mark Daniel <Mark....@wasd.vsm.com.au> writes:

> Sue Skonetski wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> From: Grant, Clair
>>
>> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 3:40 PM
>>
>> To: OpenVMS Systems Software Group
>>
>> Subject: VMS boots on Itanium
>>
>> We are please to announce that OpenVMS has booted on an HP i2000 Itanium
>> system.
> 8< snip 8<
>
> Many congratulations to VMS Engineering (who in spite of not a few
> obstacles and many naysayers have shown, once again, that they can do
> whatever they set their minds - and are permitted - to do!)
>

I don't think that there was anyone here who doubted that engineering
could make VMS boot and even run on IA64. The naysayers just doubt it
is the path they should be taking. But that's a managment issue and we
all know how good that is.

bill

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Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves
bi...@cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton |
Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>

Michel Herrscher

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Feb 1, 2003, 10:34:45 AM2/1/03

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Bob Ceculski <b...@instantwhip.com> a écrit

This new era is the perfect continuum of a long long history, that began on
17-nov-1858 and will end at the end of times ....
--
Michel HERRSCHER CONSULTANT
VMSer on VAX and ALHA ( only since 14-jun1979.... VMS 1.3)
Waiting ITANIUMer in later in 2003 ( if INTEL wants it ;) , as VMS did it.