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Article #265Re: Standards Update, IEEE 1003.0: POSIX Guide
From: Terry Laskodi
Date: Thu, 03 May 1990 17:27
Date: Thu, 03 May 1990 17:27
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From: Terry Laskodi <terryl@tekcrl.labs.tek.com>
In article <661@longway.TIC.COM>, cazier@mbunix.mitre.org (Cazier) writes:
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>Why would any vendor feel "punished" because they can't meet some
>standard? I imagine there will be lots of OS's that can't meet the
>standards fully....but why should they feel punished?
>
>POSIX is not likely to impact your sales much, would it?
If you sell to the federal government, then yes, sales probably would be
impacted a GREAT deal. Have you ever read the requirements for a fed bid on a
software project? Not a pretty sight. The specifications are just vague enough
such that (in UN*X, anyways), one scratches one's head and says "well,this spec
could probably be met by <insert-appropriate-un*x-command-here>".
Hopefully, POSIX will reduce the amount of paperwork required for specs
quite a bit (hey, we can dream, can't we???).
Terry Laskodi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!longway!std-unix From: terryl@tekcrl.labs.tek.com (Terry Laskodi) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: Standards Update, IEEE 1003.0: POSIX Guide Message-ID: <665@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 3 May 90 17:27:30 GMT References: <661@longway.TIC.COM> <652@longway.TIC.COM> <626@longway.TIC.COM> <636@longway.TIC.COM> Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 24 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)