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- From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
- Message-ID: <2B47AE81.1B7E@tct.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:26:57 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.062544.5838@news.columbia.edu> <31DEC199210495450@author.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- According to rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler):
- >Personally I hope POSIX will catch on, and get real...
-
- "There is another theory which states that this has already occurred."
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- I use three UNIX variants at work: SCO, AIX, and HP-UX. I use one at
- home: Linux. All four are POSIX compliant at the source level (which
- POSIX.# is that?), so that I customarily use termios and sigaction in
- my real code.
-
- POSIX is not the future. POSIX is the present.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
- want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
- and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
-