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Article #257Answer to "what does POSIX stand for?"
From: Don_Lewine
Date: Wed, 02 May 1990 18:17
Date: Wed, 02 May 1990 18:17
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In article <649@longway.TIC.COM> From: Al Gaspar <gaspar@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL>: > >Could someone please tell me what POSIX stand for? >From the Rationale and Note section of IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 section B.1: "Since the interface enables application writers to write portable applications -- it was developed with that goal in mind -- it has been dubbed POSIX, an acronym for Portable Operations System Interface. The name POSIX, suggested by Richard Stallman, was adopted during the printing of the Trial Use Standard." "... The term POSIX is expected to be pronounced pahz-icks, as in positive, not poh-six, or other variations." Hope that helps. --Don Lewine Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 94
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!longway!std-unix From: Don_Lewine@dgc.ceo.dg.com Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Answer to "what does POSIX stand for?" Message-ID: <659@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 2 May 90 18:17:10 GMT Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Lines: 20 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)