In March 1994 CDE became the responsibility of the " new OSF ", a merger of the Open Software Foundation and Unix International ;

Unix International ( UI ) merged into Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) in 1994 only to merge with X / Open to form The Open Group in 1996.

In 1994, after AT & T had sold UNIX System V to Novell and the rival Unix International consortium had disbanded, the Open Software Foundation ceased funding of research and development of OSF / 1.

OSF had previously merged with UNIX International in 1994, meaning that the new entity effectively represented all elements of the Unix community of the time.

Ron bootstrapped Small-C on the SRI International PDP 11 / 45 Unix system with an account provided by John Bass for Small C development ( with management permission, provided the compiler sources were released as public domain ).

By 1990 the group had expanded to 21 members: in addition to the original five, Philips and Nokia from Europe ; AT & T, Digital, Unisys, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NCR, Sun Microsystems, Prime Computer, Apollo Computer from North America ; Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC from Japan ; plus the Open Software Foundation and Unix International.

Whereas Unix time is based on Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) and is subject to leap seconds, PTP is based on International Atomic Time ( TAI ) and moves forward monotonically.