QuickSpecs

Under The Open Group's UNIX branding program, HP has received the UNIX 98 brand for the Tru64 UNIX Operating
System, the UNIX 98 Workstation brand, and the Common Desktop Environment brand. Tru64 UNIX is licensed to use the
UNIX trademark in conjunction with the Tru64 UNIX product.
Tru64 UNIX conforms to the Single UNIX Specification, Version 2 required for the UNIX 98 brand. It consists of three BASE
specifications:
Commands and Utilities, Issue 5
System Interface Definitions, Issue 5
System Interfaces and Headers, Issue 5
In addition, the Single UNIX Specification includes:
Network Services, Issue 5
X/Open Curses, Issue 4 Version 2
UNIX 98
The UNIX 98 Product Standard is a significantly enhanced version of the UNIX 95 Product Standard. The mandatory
enhancements include (1) Threads interfaces, (2) Multibyte Support Extension (MSE), (3) Large File Support, (4) Dynamic
Linking, (5) changes to remove hardware data-length dependencies or restrictions, and (6) Year 2000 changes.
UNIX 98 is made up of the following Product Standards:
Internationalized System Calls and Libraries Extended V2
Commands and Utilities V3
C Language
Sockets V2
Transport Service (XTI) V2
Internationalized Terminal Interfaces (XCurses)
UNIX 98 Workstation
The UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard is the same as the UNIX 98 Product Standard, with the addition of the
requirement to conform to the Common Desktop Environment Product Standard.
UNIX 98 Workstation is made up of the following Product Standards:
Internationalized System Calls and Libraries Extended V2
Commands and Utilities V3
C Language
Transport Service (XTI) V2
Sockets V2
Intermationalized Terminal Interfaces
X Window System Application Interface V2
Motif Toolkit
Calendaring and Scheduling
QuickSpecs
HP Tru64 UNIX Operating System Version V5.1B
Standards
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