You forgot "...it is the creed of slaves" in your Wm. Penn tagline.
:)
By the way, are you talking about VMS on IA-64, or IA-64 in general?
If it's VMS on IA-64, which Integrity system are you talking about, a single-processor RX1???, or the 16-processor Superdome, or something in between?
And what do you mean by IO performance? Do you mean the throughput of the IO host bridge? IO on these systems is at least PCI-X 133, and PCI Express systems are scheduled for release this year. If you mean devices, are you talking SCSI, or NI or one of the subsets of those technologies?
I know more than a little bit about VMS, having done more than a little work on the VMS IO subsystem for Alpha and IA-64.
Good to see that there are still a lot of VMS fans around.
We're still here, and we don't plan on going away soon.
2. IA-64 In general
3. End to end throughput for the price/performance curve nothing current can outperform VMS on Alpha. I have seen the benchmarks and know that supposedly ia-64 will compete with alpha but my real world trials 4way RX vs 4 Way es4x the es4x mopped up on a realtime process control app