20 Oct
2011
20 Oct
'11
4:28 p.m.
On 10/20/11 5:51 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
In the AIX5 timeframe, working with SCO on Project Monterey,
apparently there was a port to the Itanium, as well, but it was never
released.
My information is a little different, second-hand from IBM sources.
Certainly slanted to the IBM party line....
IBM worked in project Monterey, which involved not only SCO but HP
and a few other participants, on a port of OpenGroup-certified UNIX to
the x86 family[0]. That effort, as far as I know, was specced as a
32-bit OS and never went to Itanium.
At about the same time, IBM did port AIX v5 to Itanium. (I have
pre-distribution training course materials that detail booting and
installing AIX to an EFI-based Itanium system.)
But as you said, that port never made it out the door. IBM made a
decision at about that time that Linux would be their cross-platform OS
offering and ran with it.
Doc
[0] I'm convinced that Monterey was the root of the SCO/IBM UNIX
licensing litigation.