Univel
Encyclopedia
Univel was a joint venture of Novell
and AT&T
's Unix System Laboratories
(USL) that was formed in 1991 to develop and market the Destiny desktop Unix
operating system
,
which was released in 1992 as UnixWare
1.0. Univel existed only briefly in the period between AT&T initially divesting parts of USL in 1991,
and its eventual outright purchase by Novell, which completed in 1993.
Novell
Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...
and AT&T
American Telephone & Telegraph
AT&T Corp., originally American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is an American telecommunications company that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies. AT&T is the oldest telecommunications company...
's Unix System Laboratories
Unix System Laboratories
Unix System Laboratories was originally organized as part of Bell Labs in 1989. USL joined with the UNIX Software Operation, also a Bell Laboratories division, in 1990. It assumed responsibility for Unix development and licensing activities...
(USL) that was formed in 1991 to develop and market the Destiny desktop Unix
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
,
which was released in 1992 as UnixWare
UnixWare
UnixWare is a Unix operating system maintained by The SCO Group . UnixWare is typically deployed as a server rather than desktop. Binary distributions of UnixWare are available for x86 architecture computers. It was originally released by Univel, a jointly owned venture of AT&T's Unix System...
1.0. Univel existed only briefly in the period between AT&T initially divesting parts of USL in 1991,
and its eventual outright purchase by Novell, which completed in 1993.