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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 07:43:13 -0500
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.828879781@schonberg> <828903918snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <dewar.828912460@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.828912460@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >This surely must be wrong, either Unix is a trade mark or it is not.
-
- Consider:
- Wednesday(TM)
- is a small, homicidal girl with long hair.
-
- Wednesday
- is two days from when I write this.
-
- UNIX is a trademark. Unix is not really. Rather, the X/Open people have
- decided to allow things similar to Unix to be called "Unix systems", but
- not to use the little (tm) symbol.
-
- >In fact from what Dan Pop says, systems like Solaris and Irix *can* in
- >fact call themselves Unix, since they have an appropaite agreement with
- >the trademark holder. What is not clear is what is involved (other than
- >paying a fee) in getting this permission (i.e. is there any formal
- >testing process?)
-
- Assumably, there is, because they had to alter their systems to get that
- approval, though not much, because SVR4 out of the box is pretty much
- canonical Unix, and Solaris is definitely an SVR4 derivitive. (It has
- the SVR2-4 sed bug.)
-
- -s
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- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach.
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