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- There's not been much activity in this newsgroup lately.
- This is slightly surprising, consdiring the amount of activity
- about standards lately:
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- The USENIX POSIX Portability Workshop, resulting in many
- comments and objections being fed into the IEEE 1003.1 balloting.
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- The NBS POSIX Implementation Workshop, producing input to NBS
- about their proposed Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).
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- The publication of two documents on POSIX by /usr/group, and the
- creation of newsgroups related to the /usr/group Technical Committee.
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- Balloting on IEEE P1003.1 during the thirty days starting 15 November
- (tomorrow).
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- Concurrent balloting on the same draft of P1003.1 as an ISO draft standard.
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- Announcements by Sun and AT&T of a joint plan for future development
- of UNIX, incorporating both hardware and software.
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- A decision by the General Services Administration (GSA) regarding
- the protest by DEC of an Air Force RFP that specified System V and SVVS.
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- Quiet progress by P1003.2 and the other P1003 subcommittees.
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- Some discussion of these things might be interesting.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 12, Number 27
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