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- Subject: NEW BOOK: The Open Standards Puzzle
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- Keywords: POSIX,UNIX,Standards,Open
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:25:33 GMT
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- UNIX, POSIX, and Open Systems:
- The Open Standards Puzzle
- by John S. Quarterman and Susanne Wilhelm
- $39.95 / 416 pages / hardcover
- Addison-Wesley Publishing ISBN 0-201-52772-3
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- From the back cover:
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- [The book] discusses issues that affect many standards and
- profiles including networking; conformance testing; independence
- from a single programming language; and internationalization
- across human languages, codesets, and cultural conventions.
- Standards facilitate application portability, user portability,
- and interoperability among different versions of UNIX and other
- open systems. This is a how-to book for understanding,
- implementing, and using standards, explaining how standards are
- produced, and how to affect them . . .
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- Table of Contents (chapters):
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- Computing Models
- UNIX and Open Systems
- POSIX and Open Standards
- Formal Standards Bodies
- Industry Organizations and User Groups
- Processes
- IEEE/CS TCOS Standards
- Protocols and Standards
- Programming Language Issues
- Conformance Testing
- Internationalization
- Frameworks
- TCOS Profiles
- Industry Profiles
- Procurement Profiles
- Appendix A: Resources
- Appendix B: Puzzle Challenge
- Glossary
- Index
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