By William Fellows
IBM Corp is expected to claim today that it is the first to boot Unix, a prototype of its Monterey/64 operating system, on Intel Merced silicon. It supposedly took less than 24 hours to get the source code up and running in Dupont, Washington.
Now it’s up, there is going to be an interesting struggle over what Monterey will be branded as when it comes to market. Monterey is IBM’s AIX ported to IA-64 and blended with features from Santa Cruz Operation Inc UnixWare and Sequent Computer Systems Inc’s Dynix/ptx. SCO’s OEMs and resellers don’t want to give up the UnixWare brand and are supposedly concerned about being railroaded into some kind of AIX-like naming convention.
