The Remedy debugger was the first embedded system level debugger in the world.[citation needed] It offered many features that users take for granted today in the days when having a source level debugger was a luxury. Some of these features include:
It started as an academic research project (originally called Melody for debugging the Harmony Operating System). The results were published in one of the early papers on debugging multiprocessor systems.[1]
The current version of the Unison Operating System continues to use both gdb and Remedy debugger.[2][3][4]