The advanced debugger adb is the standard UNIX debugger found on Solaris 1 and 2, HP-UX and SCO. The initial version was written by Steve Bourne. It is the successor of a debugger called db.
ADB is the standard debugger on Solaris and the Solaris kernel debugger kadb that was introduced with SunOS-3.5 (1986) is a minor variant of adb.
A version of ADB was integrated into the BSD kernel as a kernel debugger.[citation needed]
Use of ADB has largely replaced by the symbolic debugger DBX.
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