adriank@microsoft.UUCP (Adrian King) (02/04/85)
To clarify the reports surrounding the Microsoft/AT&T announcement at Uniforum in Dallas: Microsoft reaffirmed its committment to the introduction of a System V compatible version of XENIX; AT&T and Microsoft are working together to define the Verification Service by which UNIX derived products are tested to ensure conformance with the System V Interface Definition. Microsoft has been designated, by AT&T, as the pilot participant in the Verification Service and XENIX is expected to be the first microcomputer UNIX derivative to be so verified. AT&T announced that, following verification, it will offer XENIX for the PC6300 machine. For further information, please contact me directly. Adrian King Microsoft XENIX Product Manager ....!decvax!microsoft!adriank
sharpe@drivax.UUCP (Andrew Sharpe) (02/07/85)
> Microsoft reaffirmed its committment to the introduction of a System V > compatible version of XENIX; AT&T and Microsoft are working together to > define the Verification Service by which UNIX derived products are > tested to ensure conformance with the System V Interface Definition. > Microsoft has been designated, by AT&T, as the pilot participant in the > Verification Service and XENIX is expected to be the first microcomputer > UNIX derivative to be so verified. > ....!decvax!microsoft!adriank So how come all the generic ports were validated with AT&T URTS, and XENIX gets to have their own? Could it be that they can't pass the URTS? -- _____________ / | _______ | | | |__ / | | Andrew Sharpe | | | | | | | | | | | | { ihnp4, mot, ucscc, amdahl } !drivax!sharpe | | |__| | | | | / | | | | ------- | / -------------
fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen) (02/11/85)
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From my understanding of the System V Interface Definition, along with its
eventual validation suite, and my experience with AT&T's System V URTS
(the 68000 System V microport validation, completed almost a year ago): The
System V Interface Definition addresses the "fundamentals" of System V (and then
there are extensions, a la /usr/group standards). Since these fundamentals form
a (large) subset of System V, its validation suite will not encompass all that
URTS does. Xenix is only being challenged to pass the System V Interface test,
*not* URTS/etc.
This latter, URTS/etc., validates conformance to requirements/
specifications above and beyond the Interface Definition. Moreover, the
generic microport validation involves more than URTS; it also involves a
line-by-line justification of every change to source code. It should be true,
therefore, that every validated microport has, by definition, also passed a
System V "Interface" test.
Nevertheless, Microsoft's commitment to meeting/passing the System V
Interface test is a great boost for Un*x standards and the Un*x-based
applications software business.
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