Re: Intel itanium systems

["Dave Peters" <user=190@nabble.blu.org>]

 Thanks. I'll try. 

-- 
Dave 
--- Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 07:08 -0800, Dave Peters 
> wrote: 
> > Hello all, 
> > 
> > My company is planing to do one time Linux 
> software 
> > development testing on Intel itanium systems. 
> However, 
> > we don't have it and it is quite expensive to buy 
> one. 
> > Can anyone  suggestion if we have any others 
> options. 
> 
> One option would be HP's ski emulator: 
> 
> http://ski.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
> Another would be to look for something like an HP 
> zx2000 on eBay. A 
> quick search for 'zx2000' there turned up a few of 
> them for around $500 
> each. They're old and a touch slow, but they work -- 
> I've got one here 
> in my cube, runs rhel4, rhel5 and fedora just fine, 
> should run any other 
> ia64 distro too. 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jarod Wilson 
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> 
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