Digital Equipment DEC 3000 500X AXP Owner's Manual page 22

DEC OSF/1 AXP is Digital Equipment Corporation's
DEC OSF/1
AXP Operating implementation of the Open Software Foundation (OSF)
operating system components and Motif graphical user interface
System
and programming environment.
Description DEC OSF/1 AXP is compliant with the OSF Application
of DEC OSF/1 Environment Specification (AES), which specifies the interface
AXP to support portable applications designed to run on a variety of
hardware platforms.
In addition, the DEC OSF/1 operating system complies with
these standards and industry specifications:
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The DEC OSF/1 AXP operating system is an advanced kernel
DEC OSF/1 AXP
architecture based on Carnegie Mellon University's Mach
Architecture
V2.5 kernel design with components from Berkeley Software
Distribution 4.3 (BSD) and other sources. DEC OSF/1 AXP
provides numerous features to assist application programmers
in developing applications that use shared libraries, multithread
support, and memory mapped files.
To ensure a high level of binary compatibility with the ULTRIX
operating system, the DEC OSF/1 AXP operating system is
compatible with the Berkeley 4.3 programming interfaces.
You May Have If there is a yellow sticker over the system power connector on
Factory-Installed your DEC 3000 Model 500X AXP system, the operating system
Software is factory-installed on an internal fixed disk drive, and you can
start it on your system using either the OpenVMS AXP Factory
Installed Software (FIS) procedure, or the DEC OSF/1 AXP
Factory-Installed Software (FIS) Startup Procedure.
Chapter 5 describes how to start your system if it has a
factory-installed operating system.
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