The Musings of Chris Samuel

One of the things that SCO keeps bringing up is how IBM did nasty things to them on Project Monterey. Thing is that Linux actually ran on one of the target architectures of Project Monterey, Intel’s Itanium (aka Merced, IA-64), 8 months prior to Monterey and the people who did this were not IBM, but HP!

When Monterey first booted on IA-64 in September 1999 HP
had already
had the
Linux kernel running in native 64-bit mode on the platform
according to HREF="http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-100.html">this
technical report from HP, (direct link to PDF HREF="http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-100.pdf">here).

There is also a HREF="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/LE99-paper-html/">paper
(PDF HREF="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/LE99-paper.pdf">here)
& HREF="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/LE99-slides/">slides
(PDF HREF="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/LE99-slides.pdf">here)
that David Mosberger from HP presented at Linux Expo ‘99
documenting their work that includes a
very
interesting timeline that shows that they first got the
kernel to successfully boot and run Hello World on the 20th
January 1999, and they had that with CERNs glibc for IA64
running by the 9th April 1999.

So, if Linux was running on IA-64 8 months *before*
Monterey, could
we claim that they copied from Linux using SCO’s bent
logic ?

Posted on April 5th, 2005 under Linux • Print This Post