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- From: hadron!jsdy@seismo.css.gov (Joseph S. D. Yao)
- Date: 26 Jan 87 14:36:44 GMT
- Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
-
- In article <6881@ut-sally.UUCP> hoptoad.UUCP!gnu@cgl.ucsf.edu (John Gilmore) writes:
- >There are several points here, and I didn't make things very clear.
- >> From: gwyn@brl.arpa (Douglas A. Gwyn)
- >> The standard should not be weakened unduly to permit existing
- >> inadequate facilities to be advertised as already conforming!
- >This last statement is indicative of a severe miscommunication
- >somewhere. I thought we were standardizing *UNIX*. U. N. I. X.
-
- Yes, is miscommunication. (tm)UNIX is a trademark of Bell Labs,
- and now a Registered Trademark of AT&T. Only those folk have
- the right to standardise it. And they have: "System V (ex-III):
- consider it The Standard." They issued the SVID (System V Interface
- Desciption). And then re-wrote it: twice, so far.
-
- POSIX, P1003.2, is a Standard for An Operating System Interface.
- Note that it's called POSIX, and not that registered trademark.
- Yes, it looks a lot like our favourite OS that's better than any
- other OS out there (yet). No coincidence. But it doesn't have
- to look exactly like any existing version.
-
- However, the quote above referred specifically to the Shell! Not
- to the OS, but to the user interface.
-
- BTW, I rather agree that such things as UUCP, mail, et al.
- should be mentioned in the standard at least by reference or
- in an appendix as minimal interfaces. But room should be
- allowed to make these replacable by updated facilities, and
- perhaps even to be made an optional package.
- --
-
- Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
- jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 29
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