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Date:      Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:14:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net
Subject:   Re: Preliminary UDI spec available 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.990407211217.2116I-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199904080349.XAA09945@bellsouth.net>

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On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote:

>  
> >      I just saw that a preliminary UDI spec (0.90) is available for
> > public review (UDI is the "Uniform Driver Interface", which should allow
> > for portable drivers across hardware *and* operating systems -- at the
> > source and not binary level).  I don't know if anyone here is following
> > it, but here it is:
> > 
> >         http://www.sco.com/UDI/specs.html
> 
> I cornered the SCO folks together with Dialogic during their joint customer
> conference in Ft. Lauderdale last October about UDI.
> 
> I came away feeling that UDI might be just a nice dream (from some marketing
> person).

I printed out the main spec..
(thank god for psnup)
It looks like a lot of work.

I haven't got my mind around it all yet but it seems to 
remind me of NT a lot.

julian





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