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Submitted-by: [e-mail] (Susanne Wilhelm)

This is a compendium of access information about open system
standards.

Corrections and additions are solicited for this and its
related articles:

        Calendar of Open System Events
        Access to Open System User Groups
        Access to Open System Networking
        Access to Open System Publications
        Access to Open System Standards

These access articles are collected and posted by Susanne
Wilhelm of Windsound Consulting <[e-mail]> and John
S. Quarterman of Texas Internet Consulting <[e-mail]>.
We encourage others to reuse this information, but we ask
for proper acknowledgment, for example by including this
statement.

We derive some listings from personal attendance or
subscriptions, but most from other listings elsewhere, or
from contributions by readers.  If a group doesn't have a
meeting schedule listed, it's because nobody has sent me
<[e-mail]> one.  This is a low-budget operation: we
publish what we have on hand when the time comes (about
every other month).

UNIX is a Registered Trademark of Unix System Laboratories,
Inc.

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Changes since last posting: IEEE POSIX April 1992 meeting
        dates; two more POSIX groups.

Access information is given here for the following standards
and organizations:
Newsgroups, page 3:
        comp.std.unix, 3.
POSIX, page 3:
        POSIX, 3; ISO POSIX, 4; U.S. TAG, 4; TCOS, 5.
The Review Hierarchy, page 7:
        SEC, 7; SAB, 7; SB, 7.
POSIX Base Standards, page 8:
        IEEE 1003.1, 8; IEEE 1003.2, 8; IEEE 1003.7, 8.
POSIX Extensions, page 9:
        IEEE 1003.4, 9; IEEE 1003.6, 9; IEEE 1003.10, 9;
        IEEE 1003.11, 9.
TCOS Profiles, page 10:
        IEEE 1003.0, 10; IEEE 1003.13, 10; IEEE 1003.14, 10;
        IEEE 1003.15, 10; IEEE 1003.18, 10.
POSIX Test Assertions, page 11:
        IEEE 1003.3, 11.
POSIX Language Bindings, page 11:
        IEEE 1003.5, 11; IEEE 1003.9, 11; IEEE 1003.16, 11.
TCOS Distributed Services Extensions, page 12:
        DSSC, 12; IEEE 1003.8, 12; IEEE 1003.12, 12; IEEE
        1003.17, 12; IEEE 1224, 12; IEEE 1237, 12; IEEE
        1238, 12; IEEE 1238.1, 13.
TCOS Graphical User Interfaces, page 13:
        IEEE 1201.1, 13; IEEE 1201.2, 13.
Other Standards, Committees, and Organizations, page 14:
        X3H3.6, 14; X3J16, 14; X3J11, 14; ANSI, 15.
Government Standards Activities, page 16:
        NIST, 16.
User Group Standards Activities, page 17:
        USENIX Snitch Reports, 17; EurOpen/USENIX ISO
        Monitor Project, 17; UTC, 17; UniForum TC I18N, 18;
        UniForum TC Realtime, 18; UniForum TC Performance,
        19; UniForum TC Security, 19; UniForum TC C++, 19.
Industry Specifications, page 20:
        /usr/group 1984 Standard, 20; SVID, 20; Bach Book,
        21; XPG, 22; 4.3BSD Manuals, 22; BSD Book, 23.
Industry Consortia, page 24:
        OSF, 24; UI, 24; PortSoft, 24.

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Newsgroups.

comp.std.unix: USENET newsgroup about open systems standards

        Comments:       uunet!std-unix-request    [e-mail]
        Submissions:    uunet!std-unix            [e-mail]

This moderated USENET newsgroup is gatewayed with the
Internet, BITNET, and UUCP mailing list
[e-mail].

Other USENET newsgroups about related interfaces, languages,
and standards include comp.std.c, comp.std.c++,
comp.std.internat, comp.std.misc, comp.org.usrgroup, and
comp.org.ieee.  None of them are moderated.

POSIX.

The name POSIX applies to IEEE 1003.1, and also to a family
of IEEE 1003 standards, as described below under TCOS.  It
also applies to ISO POSIX, i.e., ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG15 and
its IS 9945 set of standards, as also described below.

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POSIX: IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System Interface

        IEEE Service Center
        445 Hoes Lane
        Piscataway, NJ  08854
        U.S.A.
        800-678-4333 (inside U.S.A.)
        [phone]

IEEE standards may be ordered from the above address.

The IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System Interface Committee
published the 1003.1 "POSIX" Full Use Standard in October
1988 after its formal approval 22 August 1988 as IEEE Std.
1003.1-1988.  IEEE published an updated version in December
1990, as IEEE Std. 1003.1-1990.  The full price is $75. When
purchased from the IEEE the member price is $52.50. When
purchased from the Computer Society the member price is
$67.50. There is a $5.00 charge for tax, shipping, and
handling.

This is an interface and environment standard;
implementation details are explicitly excluded.  Although it
is based on documentation for various versions of the UNIX
Operating System, it is explicitly not UNIX, which is an
implementation licensed by a certain vendor.  Source level
application portability is the goal.
IEEE:   is a trademark of the Institute of Electrical and
        Electronic Engineers, Inc.
POSIX:  is no longer a trademark of IEEE or of anyone else.

ISO POSIX: ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG15 and IS 9945-1

        The convener is Jim Isaak:
        see below for his address.

IEEE 1003.1 is also International Standard 9945-1 (IS 9945-
1), which was developed under a joint committee of the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the
International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC), Joint
Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 22, Working Group 15
(ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG15). Dominic Dunlop reports on ISO/IEC
JTC1 SC22 WG15 for EurOpen and USENIX.

91 Nov 4-8      WG15              Stockholm, Sweden
92 May 18-22    WG15              New Zealand (tentative)
92 Oct 6        WG15              Denmark

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U.S. TAG: United States Technical Advisory Group to WG15

        Donn Terry
        Hewlett Packard Systems Division
        3404 E. Harmony Road
        Fort Collins, CO  80525
        U.S.A.
        hplabs!hpfcla!donn
        [phone]

There is a U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO/IEC
JTC1 SC22 WG15.  The TAG chair is Donn Terry of HP, who is
also the current chair of IEEE 1003.1.  U.S. TAG meetings
tend to be held wherever 1003.1 is meeting.

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TCOS: IEEE/CS Technical Committee on Operating Systems

        James Isaak
        Chairperson, IEEE/CS TCOS-SS
        Digital Equipment TTB1-5/G06
        10 Tara Blvd.
        Nashua, NH  03062
        U.S.A.
        [e-mail]
        [phone]
        fax: [phone]

The sponsoring body for the IEEE P1003 POSIX standards
committees is the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE/CS) IEEE/CS
Technical Committee on Operating Systems (TCOS) Standards
Subcommittee (SS).  TCOS also sponsors other related
standards committees, such as P1201.  The term POSIX applies
to all the P1003 subcommittees and their documents, but not
to the other TCOS subcommittees.

There are three levels of participation in these TCOS
committees:
1) Working Group: (attend meetings)
2) Balloting Group: (vote on standards)
3) Correspondence Group: (receive drafts and working papers)
To join the correspondence group and receive paper copies of
drafts of TCOS standards and working papers contact the IEEE
Computer Society at [phone]. To comment send mail to
the above contact address.  Sufficiently interested parties
may also join the balloting or working groups.

Single copies of current drafts of TCOS documents: IEEE
Computer Society [phone] There is a charge to cover
reproduction and mailing.

The next scheduled meetings of the TCOS working groups are:

91 Jul 8-12     TCOS WG           Doubletree, Santa Clara, CA
91 Oct 21-25    TCOS WG           Parsippany Hilton, Parsippany, NJ

92 Jan 13-17    TCOS WG           Irvine, CA (location tentative)
92 Apr 6-10     TCOS WG           Atlanta, GA (location tentative)
92 Jul 13-17    TCOS WG           Chicago, IL (location tentative)
92 Oct 19-23    TCOS WG           Montreux (location tentative)

93 Jan 11-15    TCOS WG           New Orleans, LA (location tentative)
93 Apr 5-19     TCOS WG           Boston, MA (location tentative)
93 Jul 12-16    TCOS WG           Hawaii (location tentative)
93 Oct 18-22    TCOS WG           Atlanta (location tentative)

TCOS WG:  TCOS Working Groups (IEEE P1003.x, P1201.x, P1224,
        P1238.x), SEC, and U.S. TAG

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The Review Hierarchy.

These committees adopt various levels of policies and
procedures, and have successive review authority on
standards and on each other.

SEC: IEEE/CS TCOS-SS Standards Executive Committee

IEEE:   Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
        Inc.
IEEE/CS:  IEEE Computer Society
TCOS-SS:  IEEE/CS TCOS Standards Subcommittee
See above address for TCOS-SS Chair.

This is an organizational committee composed of the chairs
of all the TCOS-sponsored committees, some officers, and the
Institutional Representatives from some user groups and
vendor consortia.

There are seven Institutional Representatives to TCOS:
Dominic Dunlop from EurOpen, Peter Collinson from USENIX,
Ralph Barker from UniForum, Petr Janecek from X/OPEN, Fritz
Schulz from OSF, Shane McCarron from UNIX International, and
Richard Alexander from Share.

SAB: IEEE/CS Standards Activities Board

This is an IEEE/CS review board that usually has to approve
decisions made by the SEC about formation or dissolution of
committees or projects, or results of ballots.

91 Oct 30       IEEE CS SCC/SAB   Nashville, TN

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SB: IEEE Standards Board

This is an IEEE review board that has to approve any IEEE
standards that are passed on to ANSI as American National
Standards.

91 Jun 19       RevCom, NesCom    IEEE HQ, New York, NY
91 Jun 20       IEEE Standards BoardIEEE HQ, New York, NY
91 Sep 25       RevCom, NesCom    IEEE HQ, New York, NY
91 Sep 26       IEEE Standards BoardIEEE HQ, New York, NY
91 Dec 4        RevCom, NesCom    IEEE HQ, New York, NY
91 Dec 5        IEEE Standards BoardIEEE HQ, New York, NY

RevCom:   IEEE Standards Board Review Committee
NesCom:   IEEE Standards Board New Standards Committee

POSIX Base Standards.

Personal names listed are Chairs and Vice-Chairs.

IEEE 1003.1: System Application Program Interface

        Donn Terry (HP) <[e-mail]>

IEEE 1003.2: Shell and Utilities Interface

        Hal Jespersen (POSIX Software Group) <[e-mail]>
        Don Cragun (Sun) <[e-mail]>

IEEE 1003.7: System Administration

        Martin Kirk (BTRL) <ukc!axion!mkirk>
        David Hinnant (BNR) <uunet!rti.rti.org!bnrunix!dfh>

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POSIX Extensions.

Personal names listed are Chairs and Vice-Chairs.

IEEE 1003.4: Real Time

        Bill Corwin (Intel) <uunet!littlei!wmc>
        Mike Cossey

IEEE 1003.6: Security

        Dennis Steinauer (NIST) <[e-mail]>
        Ron Elliot (IBM) <[e-mail]>

IEEE 1003.10: Supercomputing

        Karen Sheaffer (Sandia) <[e-mail]>
        Jonathan C. Brown (Lawrence Livermore) <[e-mail]>

IEEE 1003.11: Transaction Processing

        Elliot J Brebner (Unisys) <uunet!s5000!brebner>
        Bob Snead (Interactive) <[e-mail]>

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TCOS Profiles.

Personal names listed are Chairs and Vice-Chairs.

IEEE 1003.0: POSIX Guide

        Al Hankinson (NIST) <[e-mail]>
        Kevin Lewis (DEC)

IEEE 1003.13: Real Time Applications Environment Profile

        (A project of 1003.4)

IEEE 1003.14: Multiprocessing Applications Environment
Profile

        Bill Corwin?

IEEE 1003.15: Supercomputing Batch Element

        (A project of 1003.10)

IEEE 1003.18: POSIX Platform Environment Profile

        (A project of 1003.1)

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POSIX Test Assertions.

Personal names listed are Chairs and Vice-Chairs.

IEEE 1003.3: Test Methods

        Roger Martin (NIST) <[e-mail]>
        N. Ray Wilkes (UNISYS) <[e-mail]>

POSIX Language Bindings.

Personal names listed are Chairs and Vice-Chairs.

IEEE 1003.5: Ada Binding for POSIX

        Steven Deller (Verdix) <[e-mail]>
        Terry Fong (USArmy) <[e-mail]>

IEEE 1003.9: Fortran Bindings

        John McGrory (HP) <[e-mail]>
        Michael J. Hannah (Sandia) <[e-mail]>

IEEE 1003.16: C Language Binding

        (A project of 1003.1)

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TCOS Distributed Services Extensions.

Personal names listed are Chairs and Vice-Chairs.

DSSC: Distributed Services Steering Committee

        Timothy Baker (Ford Aero) <[e-mail]>

IEEE 1003.8: Transparent File Access

        Jason Zions (HP) <[e-mail]>

IEEE 1003.12: Protocol Independent Interfaces

        Les Wibberley (Chemical Abstracts) <[e-mail]>

IEEE 1003.17: Directory Service API

        ?

IEEE 1224: Message Handling Services (X.400)

        John Boebinger (DEC)

IEEE 1237: API for RPC (terminated)

        none

This standards committee was terminated at the request of
its own chair and members by the TCOS SEC at their October
1990 meeting.

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IEEE 1238: Common OSI API

        Kester Fong (GM)

IEEE 1238.1: FTAM API part

        ?

TCOS Graphical User Interfaces.

Personal names listed are Chairs and Vice-Chairs.

IEEE 1201.1: Interfaces for User Portability

        Sunil Mehta (Unisys)

IEEE 1201.2: Recommended Practice on Drivability

        Lin Brown (Sun) <[e-mail]>

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Other Standards, Committees, and Organizations.

X3H3.6: Display Management Standards Committee

        Dr. Georges Grinstein Chair, X3H3.6
        [e-mail]

The X3H3.6 display management committee is in the final
stages of standardization of the X Window System Data Stream
Encoding Version 11 (the "X Protocol"). They will soon begin
the standardization of Xlib and its various language
bindings (C, ADA, Fortran) as well as begin the
standardization process within ISO.

X3J16: C++ Standards Committee

        Dmitry Lenkov
        Chair X3J16
        HP California Language Lab
        19447 Pruneridge Avenue MS 47 LE
        Cupertino, CA  95014
        U.S.A.
        [e-mail]
        [phone]
        fax: [phone]

91 Jun 17-21    C++ X3J16         Lund, Sweden

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X3J11: C Standards Committee that produced ANSI X3.159-1989

        Doug Gwyn
        Liaison from X3J11 to P1003
        U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab
        801-L Cashew Court
        Bel Air, MD  21014
        U.S.A.
        [e-mail]
        [phone]

        Thomas Plum
        Vice Chair, X3J11 Committee
        Plum Hall Inc.
        1 Spruce Avenue
        Cardiff, New Jersey 08232
        U.S.A.

This is the committee that produced ANSI X3.159-1989
Standard for Programming Language C.

ANSI: American National Standards Institute

        Global Engineering Documents
        2805 McGaw
        Irvine, CA 92714
        U.S.A.
        [phone]
        fax: [phone]

ANSI X3.159-1989 is approved and available for $87.50.

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Government Standards Activities.

NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology

        Roger Martin
        National Institute of Standards and Technology
        Technology Building, Room B266
        Gaithersburg, MD 20899
        [e-mail]
        [phone]

        For copies of FIPS #151-1:
        Barbara Blickenstaff
        National Institute of Standards and Technology
        Technology Building, Room B64
        Gaithersburg, MD 20899
        [phone]

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST,
formerly NBS, the National Bureau of Standards) has produced
a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) based on
IEEE 1003.1 and approved by the Department of Commerce on 9
March 1990 as FIPS #151-1, Portable Operating System for
Computer Environments.

NIST has a POSIX Conformance Test Suite (PCTS) for 1003.1
which is currently in preliminary external testing.

NIST also has a proposed FIPS based on IEEE 1003.2 draft 9.
NIST had started work on one for system administration which
launched the work in 1003.7.

NIST sponsors a number of standards-related workshops,
including:

91 Nov 14       APP/OSE Users ForumNIST, G, MD

APP:    Application Portability Profile
OSE:    Open Systems Environment
G, MD:  Gaithersburg, Maryland

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User Group Standards Activities.

USENIX Snitch Reports: USENIX Standards Watchdog Commitee

        Stephen Walli

There is a USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee of volunteers
who report on issues raised in standards committee meetings.
This is not a standards committee itself; it merely reports
on standards committees.  These reports are published in
``;login: The Newsletter of the USENIX Association.''

EurOpen/USENIX ISO Monitor Project:

        Dominic Dunlop
        [e-mail]
        fax [phone]
        [phone]

        The Standard Answer
        9 The Forty
        Cholsey
        OXON OX10 9LH
        U.K.

The European Forum for Open Systems (EurOpen) and the USENIX
Association have, since 1988, co-sponsored a series of
reports on the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG15 (ISO POSIX) standards
committee.  The reporter, Dominic Dunlop, attends WG15
meetings (usually two a year) and related meetings (such as
Rapporteur Group meetings), and writes reports on them.
These reports contain details of events during the meetings,
likely effects on other committees or the industry, and
broader speculations.  They are usually about half a dozen
pages long.  They appear in ;login: The Newsletter of the
USENIX Association, and the The European Forum for Open
Systems Newsletter.

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UTC: UniForum Technical Committee

        Allen L. Hankinson
        National Institute of Standards & Technology
        Systems & Software Technology Div.
        Tech Building, Room B266
        Gaithersburg, MD  20899
        U.S.A.
        [e-mail]
        [phone]
        fax: [phone]

CommUNIXations (the UniForum magazine) contains reports
about every other issue by Allen Hankinson on the UniForum
Technical Committee meetings.  These working groups are
intended to develop technological areas so that they will be
ready for standardization by a TCOS or other standards
committee.  Here is contact information for each UniForum
working group.

UniForum TC I18N: UniForum Technical Committee Working Group
on Internationalization

        Tom Yap
        Sun Microsystems
        2550 Garcia Avenue MPK1-10
        Mountain View, CA 94043
        U.S.A.
        [e-mail]
        [phone]
        fax: [phone]

91 Jun 24-26    TC I18N           UniForum, Toronto, ON

TC:     Technical Committee
I18N:   Internationalization

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UniForum TC Realtime: UniForum Technical Committee Working
Group on Realtime

        Bill Corwin
        Intel Corp.
        5200 Elam Young Pkwy
        Hillsboro, OR 97123
        U.S.A.
        [e-mail]
        [phone]
        fax: [phone]

UniForum TC Performance: UniForum Working Group on
Performance Measurements

        Ram Chelluri
        AT&T Computer Systems
        Room E15B
        Rm E15B, 4513 Western Ave.
        Lisle, IL 60532-1571
        U.S.A.
        uunet!att!cuae2!src
        [phone]
        fax: [phone]

UniForum TC Security: UniForum Working Group on Security

        Thomas Houghton
        UNIX System Labs
        190 River Rd.
        Summit, NJ 07901
        U.S.A.
        attmail!tfh
        [phone]

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UniForum TC C++: UniForum Working Group on C++

        Barbara Moo
        UNIX System Labs
        190 River Road
        Summit, NJ  07901
        U.S.A.
        uunet!research!bem
        [phone]
        fax: [phone]

Industry Specifications.

/usr/group 1984 Standard: UniForum 1984 Standard

The /usr/group 1984 Standard is a principal ancestor of
P1003.1, X/OPEN, and X3J11.  It may be ordered for $15.00
from UniForum.

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SVID: System V Interface Definition

        AT&T Customer Information Center
        Attn:  Customer Service Representative
        P.O. Box 19901
        Indianapolis, IN 46219
        U.S.A.
        800-432-6600 (Inside U.S.A.)
        800-255-1242 (Inside Canada)
        [phone] (Outside U.S.A. and Canada)

        System V Interface Definition, Issue 3
        should be ordered by the following select codes:

        Select Code:   Volume:   Topics:
        320-135        I-IV      (all four volumes)
        320-136        I         Base System
                                 Kernel Extension
        320-137        II        Basic Utilities
                                 Advanced Utilities
                                 Administered Systems
        320-138        III       Programming Language Specification
                                 Software Development
                                 Terminal Interface
                                 Real Time
                                 Remote Services
        320-139        IV        Window System
                                 X11 Library Routines
                                 NeWS

The System V Interface Definition (SVID) has changed colors
from purple to dark blue with Issue 3.  This is the AT&T
standard and is one of the most frequently-used references
of the IEEE 1003 committees.

Each volume has an appendix with the differences from Issue
2.  The price is about 47.50 U.S. dollars for each volume or
$150.00 for all four volumes.  The price includes shipping
and handling. State sales tax is additional.  Major credit
cards are accepted for telephone orders: mail orders should
include a check or money order, payable to AT&T.

Bach Book: The Design of the UNIX Operating System

        The Design of the UNIX Operating System, Maurice J. Bach,
        Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

The implementation of System V is described in this book.

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XPG: X/Open Portability Guide

        Prentice-Hall
        Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey  07632

        There are currently seven volumes:
        1) XSI Commands and Utilities
        2) XSI System Interface and Headers
        3) XSI Supplementary Definitions
        4) Programming Languages
        5) Data Management
        6) Window Management
        7) Networking Services

        Comments, suggestions, error reports, etc., for XPG Issue 3
        may be mailed directly to:

        [e-mail]
        uunet!mcvax!inset!xopen!xpg3

        Information about X/OPEN can be requested from:

        Mike Lambert
        X/Open
        Apex Plaza,
        Forbury Road
        Reading
        Berkshire RG1 1AX
        England
        [phone]
        [e-mail]
        uunet!mcvax!inset!xopen!mgl

The X/Open Portability Guide (XPG) is another reference
frequently used by IEEE 1003.

The X/Open Group was formed by "Ten of the world's major
information system suppliers".  The number of member
companies has grown since then.  They have produced a
document intended to promote the writing of portable
applications.  They closely follow both SVID and POSIX, and
cite the /usr/group standard as contributing, but X/OPEN's
books cover a wider area than any of those.  is a licensed
trademark of the X/OPEN Group Members.

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4.3BSD Manuals: 4.3 Berkeley Software Distribution Manuals

        Howard Press
        c/o USENIX Association
        2560 Ninth Street Suite 215
        Berkeley, CA 94710
        U.S.A.

        [e-mail]
        uunet!usenix!office
        [phone]
        4.3BSD User's Manual Set (3 volumes)              $25.00
                User's Reference Manual
                User's Supplementary Documents
                Master Index

        4.3BSD Programmer's Manual Set (3 volumes)        $25.00
                Programmer's Reference Maual
                Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 1
                Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 2

        4.3BSD System Manager's Manual (1 volume)         $10.00

4.2BSD and 4.3BSD have influenced POSIX in a number of
areas.  The best reference on them is the 4.3BSD manuals,
published by USENIX.  Unfortunately, there are some license
restrictions.  Contact the USENIX office for details.

BSD Book: The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX
Operating System

        The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System,
        Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and
        John S. Quarterman, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1989

Information about the design and implementation of 4.3BSD
can be found in this book.

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Industry Consortia.

OSF: Open Software Foundation

        Larry Lytle or Gary McCormack
        Open Software Foundation
        11 Cambridge Center
        Cambridge, MA 02139
        U.S.A.
        [phone]

The Open Software Foundation (OSF) is a vendor group formed
17 May 1988 by Apollo, Bull, DEC, HP, IBM, Nixdorff, and
Siemens, and later joined by Philips and numerous other
companies.

UI: UNIX International

        UNIX International
        20 Waterview Blvd.
        Parsippany, NJ 07054
        U.S.A.
        [phone]
        800-UI-UNIX-5
        800-848-6495

UNIX International (UI) was formed to advise AT&T on UNIX
System V development.  Its membership includes AT&T, Control
Data, Data General, Fujitsu, Gould, InTel, Interactive, NEC,
Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Unisys, and other
companies and institutions.

PortSoft: International Application Portable Software
Requirements Workshop

        Erik van der Poel
        Software Research Associates, Inc.
        1-1-1 Hirakawa-cho
        Chiyoda-ku
        Tokyo 102 Japan
        [e-mail]
        [phone]
        fax: [phone]

91 Jul 4-6    PortSoft          Seoul, Korea

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Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 92