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- An Update on UNIX* and C Standards Activities
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- August 1989
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- Jeffrey S. Haemer, Report Editor
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- USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee
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- IEEE 1003.0: POSIX guide Update
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- An anonymous correspondent reports of the April, 1989 meeting:
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- The April session of 1003.0 was fruitful. The most significant
- accomplishment was the proposal and development of definitions the
- committee feels it needs to describe an open systems environment
- properly and adequately. Five definitions were developed:
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- o+ open system environment
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- o+ application environment
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- o+ application environment description
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- o+ application environment profile
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- o+ POSIX open system environment
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- Group consensus was that the first four would be submitted to the JTC1
- Application Portability Study Group as a draft proposal for its work.
- The committee added the caveat that these were draft definitions,
- subject to change. A key clarification by these definitions was the
- distinction between an application profile and an open system
- environment: a profile is a subset of the environment.
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- The guide document, being developed by 1003.0, is nearly mature.
- Significant strides were made in the architecture section, which
- focuses on the operating system interface, languages, and network
- services. In the following months, 1003.0 will turn its attention to
- database management, data interchange, and graphics. The user
- interface section will be closely coupled to the work of the newly
- formed, IEEE 1201.1 (Xwindows) working group. Similarly, the the
- transaction processing section will track the on-line transaction
- processing (OLTP) group (1003.11).
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- There is some worry about the length of the guide -- currently 135
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- * UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the U.S. and other
- countries.
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- Jeffrey S. Haemer, Editor USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee
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- August 1989 Standards Update - 2 - IEEE 1003.0: POSIX guide
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- pages and growing. If the document becomes unwieldy, some attention
- will be turned to scaling it down.
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- The committee also created an Internationalization study group, to cut
- across groups and help increase inter-group coordination in this area.
- The study group intends to become a full working group in Brussels,
- this October.
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- Jeffrey S. Haemer, Editor USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee
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- Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 16
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