DEC appears to be giving up on the bulk of its RISC Unix operating system effort and transferring responsibility for development to the Santa Cruz Operation. DEC told our sister publication Unigram X that it will supply the comercial OSF/1-Ultrix implementation it is currently working on to SCO. Santa Cruz will then integrate DEC’s source code with its AT&T Unix-derived Open Desktop operating system product bundle. SCO will license the new OSF/1-Open Desktop back to DEC which DEC will then market as its standard offering across its entire range of RISC Unix systems after adding functionality for specific application environments such as transaction processing, fault tolerance and multi-media. This cocktail of OSF/1, Ultrix and AT&T Unix V.3.2 technology will also form the basis of the Unix operating system that will be offered on the ACE consortium’s MIPS-based hardware. SCO will also offer the operating system on Intel Corp’s architecture.
