Solaris on Intel 64-bit Itanium processor

Palo Alto 25 Oct 99 The Solaris Operating Environment is running on engineering prototype systems based on Intel's Itanium processor. The milestone was reached during Sun's designated testing sessions at Intel's labs in Beaverton, Oregon.

Formerly code-named Merced, Itanium will be the first product in Intel's IA-64 family, and is designed to address the increasing demands that the Internet economy places on e-Businesses.

Sun is leveraging its 64-bit Solaris Operating Environment, in the optimization of Solaris for Intel's IA-64 processor. The Solaris Application Programming Interface (API) and Device Driver Interface (DDI) are common across all Solaris platforms, meaning that ISVs that develop 64-bit applications today on Solaris SPARC Platform Edition can easily migrate these same applications to the Itanium platform by simply recompiling their application or driver. In addition, the Sun WorkShop development products provide a consistent software development environment across all Solaris supported platforms, delivering constant reliability and ease-of-use for developers.

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