[KLUG Members] Re: UnitedLinux & Review of 3 Penguins -- Yes, "Monterey" = AIX 5L

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 16:17, Adam Williams wrote:
> ?>Yes, and years ago IBM, Sun, HP, SCO, & UniSys all pledged to created a
> ?>unified UNIX to counter the M$ onslaught.  Still waiting.........
> Oh, wait!  AIX has release version 5L whose claim to fame is Linux 
> compatibility,  Linux has iBCS to run SCO binaries,  Sun has pledge to 
> make Slowaris more Linux-like, as has HP (as they want GNOME on their 
> workstations).  So I guess a UNIX standard sort of has happened,  but not 
> one for which the big UNIX players can take much credit.
> And it is amusing to read how IBM has made AIX (expensive and "high end") 
> more Linux compatible.  Just strikes one as "standing on ones head". 

Yes, the project to create an "unified" UNIX for IA-32 (aka x86) and
IA-64 (Itanium/McKinley) was "Monterey." It basically became AIX 5L as
SCO went the way of the dodos -- i.e. Caldera.  If you hit the old
"Monterey" URL, you'll get IBM's AIX 5L page.  ;-P

-- Bryan