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LINUX provides all the hooks to allow an SCSI Nine Track Tape Drive to be connected. Using these hooks, all features from within the Unibase environment can be used as in Microsoft 16 bit releases.

LINUX comes with source code. The Unibase interface to LINUX uses the same operating system commands as does "mt" in LINUX. Mt came to LINUX from the Berkley variation of UNIX not UNIX V.4. This means it is not usually available on UNIX systems.

Being rocket scientists, we looked up the code of "mt," plugged in the operating systems commands to Unibase, and off we went. It works. This says a lot about an open source operating system environment.

This comes at a time when Windows NT has made it impossible to have a nine-tract tape drive interface without a software driver. DMAC no longer writes software drivers. Chi Corporation is DMAC's software driver-writer of choice. They now only have a standalone interface to Windows NT. Thus Windows NT server users have to mount the nine track tape drives on a workstation and use the 16 bit Chi driver to interface Unibase to the tape drive. Progress comes from the most unexpected places.