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- Submitted-by: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
-
- In article <1991Nov24.203745.6320@uunet.uu.net> jason@cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions) writes:
- >I'm getting really tired of this baseless accusation. Come to a meeting; ask
- >the people there, who are employed by vendors, if they implement the stuff
- >they're standardizing. The numbers will surprise *you*; they'll surprise
- >almost no one else.
-
- Having worked at a company that implemented some POSIX features during and
- after the standardisation process, I know what Dan's saying: some of the
- things being standardised did not exist until POSIX invented them. POSIX
- job control, Dan's personal favorite, is similar, but not quite like, BSD
- job control, which everyone else used.
-
- Since it did not exist until POSIX invented it, how could it managed to have
- been tested before it was standardised (and, due to FIPS, required for
- certain key sales)? There is a difference between standardising what you
- have implemented, and implementing what you have standardised.
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- Sean Eric Fagan
- sef@kithrup.COM
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- Volume-Number: Volume 26, Number 13
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