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Re: [Plug] Linux and the Big Guys
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"Engineer(2)" wrote:
> I have just been told by a coworker of mine about a conference taking place
> in which Intel, IBM, and SGI indicated their desire to create their own
> open-source OS based on Linux. Supposedly Intel has a 64-bit chip on the
> drawing boards and no OS to use it on. Does anyone know more about this?
Intel's 64-bit chip is the Merced, which supposedly just made first
silicon. It remains to be seen whether they'll actually release it, or
just wait for the second-generation version ("McKinley") developed by
HP.
My guess is your cow orker is thinking about the Monterey project, a
collaboration with IBM, SCO and Sequent. They're developing a new
Unix-like OS combining AIX, UnixWare and Dynix. They'll also port some
parts of AIX to UnixWare to run on IA-32 machines.
Cheers!
-- Tracy Nelson
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