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- From: pope@walnut.kpc.com (John Pope)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.research
- Subject: Re: WINDOWS/NT
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 16:59:57 GMT
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- > Solaris 2.0 (Sun want its cake and eat it too in that
- > they say they are a "standard" SVR4, yet "better")
-
- The idea is to comply with the standards definitions (SVID3, etc) but
- provide a better implementation of those interfaces and to provide
- features that customers want that are beyond the standard ones. With
- standardization leveling a lot of the playing field, these are some of
- the things vendors have to do to provide differentiation (real or not)
- from their competitors.
-
- > BTW, what is the view of the POSIX standard(s) in the comp.os.research
- > community? If these standards are real and sufficient, and if
- > NT is POSIX compliant and UNIX is POSIX compliant isn't the point
- > sort of moot?
-
- If the standards were sufficient, then it would be moot, but they
- aren't (fortunately for the employment prospects of OS engineers). A
- strictly compliant 1003.1 program can't do a whole hell of a lot...
-
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- John Pope
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