If it can make the schedule, Digital Equipment Corp is apparently hoping to announce OSF/1 at UniForum in January. Under the early access programme, DEC has taken the operating system from the Open Software Foundation, added an installation programme and some documentation and shipped an unsupported version out to customer sites. The stuff coming down early in the first quarter will be the first supported unit with shared libraries, real-time hooks, Ultrix compatibility and a System V verification suite. It will apparently act as a stand-in for Open Desktop on DEC’s ACE architecture until Open Desktop arrives and feature on other boxes.
