This is a follow-​​up to this post. Mark was mag­nan­im­ously amaz­ing and bought an Itanium machine for “the lab”. It’s cur­rently sit­ting in my apart­ment. I’ll make another post tomor­row, I expect, where I actu­ally get to play with it prop­erly, but I thought at the very least I’d make a post about the head­aches of actu­ally get­ting it working.

Go through the pic­tures and read the run­ning com­ment­ary because I’m not going to repeat the pic­tures here.

Sadly the machine is noisy and relatedly prob­ably quite a power sucker. It’s in the corner of the liv­ing room, not far from where Jasna’s office is so I’m not going to be able to leave it on very often, I don’t think. The noise would prob­ably drive Jasna crazy.

I should say I still haven’t got a chance to really sit down and play with it — namely play with the assem­bler — like I planned because HP-​​UX needs so much more set­ting up. I’m going to have to install pretty well the entire GNU user­land because HP’s user­land is abso­lute garbage.