Future of SCO UNIX

[Melinda Shore]

In article <4751 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
|>As for OSF/1 in the future...
|>I can see SCO going with Mach very easily!
|>Mach is a very interesting system because of the way
|>it is designed. It is not really UNIX at all. It is a
|>memory manager and IPC manager (basicly) and a Task
|>manager. 
|You might want to change the "OSF/1" to "OSF/2"; as far as I know,
|OSF/1, or at least the first release of it, will be based on a version
|of Mach that does *not* move the part of the UNIX environment
|traditionally implemented in the kernel out into libraries and servers,
|but has it still in the kernel.

This is correct.  OSF/1 is a significantly enhanced Mach 2.5 kernel.
2.5 was built into the side of 4.3 BSD, and while it is threaded
internally, it is still a monolithic system that provides both Mach
and Unix system services inside the kernel.  Work is proceeding
on OSF/2, but there's no announced release date and member design
meetings are still being held.
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