The Open Software Foundation is ready with more details of its OSF/1 operating environment, and should begin issuing the specifications any day. The information, which had been expected to be available by the end of last month, will include the first full architectural description of OSF/1, including details of AIX-3 and the added value the Foundation intends to include, such as the elimination of hardware-specific code, increased modularity and work on memory management. The extent of the Foundation’s re-working of AIX makes it likely that IBM will after all take out a licence for OSF/1, according to US press reports, something it had not originally intended to do. The Foundation has also issued more details on the functionality of the OSF/Motif user interface, so that software developers and software vendors are able to begin design and planning.
