“Readers are sending me more proof that Monterey was indeed
always intended to run on POWER. Here’s an article from 1998 that I
thought I’d highlight, because it not only confirms that point, but
it adds a couple of interesting details that I had not
remembered:“IBM is hooking up with Intel, Santa Cruz Operation, and Sequent
to develop a new Unix operating system, although analysts are
skeptical of its impact. The new version of Unix, code-named
Monterey, will merge with parts of IBM’s Unix operating system
(called AIX), some of SCO’s UnixWare (a popular version of Unix for
small businesses), and a bit of Sequent’s PTX technology. The OS
will run on Intel’s 32-bit and upcoming 64-bit processors as well
as IBM’s Power family of chips…”
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