The Need for Aries
When we set the project milestones for the Tahoe project with Intel in 1994, one of our shared goals became readily apparent: to protect the software investments of customers and partners on the HP PA-RISC architecture as well as the Intel IA-32 systems. This was to help existing users move their legacy environments and applications—the native applications that they were currently running—into the new Itanium world with a minimum of disruption. A major component in the plan for minimizing this disruption was the Aries project, whose process is illustrated in Figure 12-1.
Figure 12-1. The Aries process cycle
The goal to provide ...
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