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- In article <649@longway.TIC.COM> From: Al Gaspar <gaspar@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL>:
- >
- >Could someone please tell me what POSIX stand for?
-
- >From the Rationale and Note section of IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 section B.1:
-
- "Since the interface enables application writers to write portable
- applications -- it was developed with that goal in mind -- it has been
- dubbed POSIX, an acronym for Portable Operations System Interface. The
- name POSIX, suggested by Richard Stallman, was adopted during the printing
- of the Trial Use Standard."
-
- "... The term POSIX is expected to be pronounced pahz-icks, as in positive,
- not poh-six, or other variations."
-
- Hope that helps.
-
- --Don Lewine
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 94
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-