Back in the old days, USL was the technology provider to the UNIX industry. It provided source code to the major UNIX vendors.
One such source code was SVR4.2MP (which was a multi processor version of SVR4.2). This was a tried and tested source code.
UnixWare 2 is based on this very high quality and stable source code with UnixWare 1 features merged in.
New to the USL team (now Novell USG) was testing of the binary product. The method of test binary products before release has further enhanced the quality of UnixWare 2.
USL managed the UNIX source code very well - one part of this was a database containing all the modification requests and enhancements requests. This database has been examined and all relevant updates made to UnixWare 2 (previously, these updates were done by USL's customers). So USG now has highly reliable product of high quality.
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