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- From: hlj@posix.COM (Hal Jespersen)
-
- In article <627@longway.TIC.COM> From: <jsh@usenix.org>
- > An Update on UNIX* and C Standards Activities
- > January 1990
- > USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee
- > Jeffrey S. Haemer, Report Editor
- >IEEE 1003.3: Test Methods Update
- > ...
- >Each day was divided into two sessions: mornings, we did technical
- >review of parts I and II, afternoons were spent writing assertions for
- >part III. AT&T, NIST, OSF, Mindcraft, IBM, DEC, HP, Data General,
- >Cray Research, Unisys, Perennial and Unisoft Ltd. were represented.
- >[Editor's complaint: I see no user representation at all.]
-
- On the contrary, most of these organizations _are_ users--of the test
- suites to be produced. How do you define "user", anyway? If you mean
- application developers who work in small companies, maybe you should
- say "ISV". If you mean people who don't develop software, but use
- POSIX systems purely for services such as timesharing, office automation,
- or vertical applications, I can easily imagine why their management
- doesn't send them to POSIX.3 meetings or why they don't take vacation
- time to go on their own. But they can still be in the balloting group
- if they are interested.
-
-
- Hal Jespersen
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- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 67
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