Talk:Tru64 UNIX

OSF/1 codebase?
What was the codebase used for OSF/1? Was it SVR3, BSD, some mixture? The article says:


 * After the OSF gave up on OSF/1, DEC renamed OSF/1 AXP to Digital UNIX and made it the main operating system for the company's Alpha processors. It was 64-bit and retained the basis on the Mach kernel but with components from Berkeley Software Distribution, System V, and other sources.

Were these BSD and SysV components already present in OSF/1, were they imported directly or from Ultrix? Qwertyus 18:24, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

The code base for OSF/1 was 4.3-Reno from Berkeley, Mach 2.5 from MIT, and System V Release 2 via IBM from AT&T. There was no Ultrix code in the original code base. 98.197.222.98 11:26, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Hybrid kernel?
Another question: could the OSF/1 kernel rightly be called a hybrid kernel? Qwertyus 16:01, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

It's debated whether Mach is actually a Microkernel to begin with, so this is not necessarily a meaningful question. :) -- 98.197.222.98 11:40, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

POSIX compatibility holes?
I'd love to see references to the POSIX compatibility holes. From what I've seen, Tru64 is usually more compatible than older commercial *NIX's! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.63.53.142 (talk • contribs).

Version table
I added the bare bones of a version table, in the spirit of the release-by-release info on the Solaris or HP-UX pages. I have not found release notes for versions before 4.0 anywhere online, so for dates on the older releases, I looked at posts in comp.unix.osf.osf1. Release notes for the older versions would improve these dates. Also, it would probably be good to list important "letter" releases like 4.0d, etc. I hope that with some more eyes on the table it can be made more useful. JFinigan (talk) 18:17, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

4.0 and older release dates are given in the book "Digital UNIX System Administrator's Guide" JFinigan —Preceding undated comment added 05:15, 19 October 2009 (UTC).

Split into OSF/1 and Tru64 Unix?
Most of the content of this page is about OSF/1 in general, not just Digital's version of it called Tru64 Unix. I plan to create a new article, OSF/1, for the general information about OSF/1, leaving Tru64 Unix for the Digital implementations (including Digital Unix, DEC OSF/1). There is also material in the Open Software Foundation article that I'll move to OSF/1. Any objections? --Macrakis (talk) 15:44, 4 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Sounds reasonable. Letdorf (talk) 22:42, 4 September 2012 (UTC).
 * ...and, finally, it's done! Letdorf (talk) 23:32, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

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