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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <15391@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 20:28:36 GMT
- References: <5664@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> <1992Nov3.232025.14287@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <1992Nov6.134154.7257@global.hacktic.nl>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >NT and OS/2 v2.0 are said to be POSIX compliant in the future. There goes
- >another advantage of UNIX...
-
- Not necessarily. "POSIX compliance" can mean "we implemented enough of
- some POSIX specs to say that we're POSIX-compliant", which does *not*
- necessarily mean "we implemented enough of those POSIX specs that a
- significant number of interesting applications should Just Work if you
- recompile them".
-
- POSIX != UNIX
-