From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 25 12: 5: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F3814E48 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:04:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.48]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with ESMTP id AAA17994; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:50:14 -0500 Message-ID: <36D58D89.3B46A2EA@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:51:05 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gummibear@we.mediaone.net Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drivers and Stuff References: <3.0.6.32.19990221222916.0079fbb0@we.mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have been monitoring them for some time: http://www.sco.com/udi/ The project is still active, but somewhat slow. They are about to release the first version of the specification but it seems to me like most of the discussion is going on in a closed group of UNIX vendors. They haven't mentioned when an implementation will be available. Pedro. gummibear@we.mediaone.net wrote: > > I was wondering... What ever happened to that Uniform Driver thing that SCO > was proposing? Don't remember correctly if they were the ones that > actually had anything to do with it, but I think it was a deal that brought > the idea of having a uniform method of writing device drivers for "Unix" > and "Unix-like" operating systems. Did this die out? Just wondering.. > > Joey > > ================================================================ > Joey Bear Garcia > Downey, CA > bear@pacificnet.net > ================================================================ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message