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SCO OSes ship with UDI

It just occurred to me that we never announced this in this group. Both of the SCO System V OSes now ship with UDI in the base OS.

UnixWare 7.1.3

The predecessor OS to this one ("OpenUNIX 8.0.0", ) was the first
shipping OS to include UDI in 05/01. This new version started
shipping in December or so and contains numerous enhancements
and conformance to the UDI implementation, all of which have
been contributed back to the public reference port my team.

http://www.sco.com/products/unixware713/
SCO OpenServer 5.0.7

UDI has been available for 5.0.6 for about two years in the form
of an installable supplement, but the integration was, uuuh,
suboptimal. (Hey, I *can* be a marketing guy...) For 5.0.7, we
did an extensive overhaul of UDI, updating it to the generation
of code found in the UnixWare 7.1.3 product, and integrating it
into the core OS. It now features a UDI runtime implementation
as part of the shipping media.

http://www.sco.com/products/openserver507/

Both products also ship with an implementation of OpenUSBDI, a USB
stack written in UDI. UDI delivered on the promise of portability; for
the code written as conforming UDI modules, we had to make a one-line
bug fix in one of the UDI drivers to make the stack work correctly on
both OSes.[1] Of course, there were a number of other changes outside
the stack to make it all work as needed, but UDI solved the problem we
needed solving - it reduced our total development and testing cost.

Posted by Robert Lipe 2003-04-01

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