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Article #269Re: Answer to "what does POSIX stand for?"
From: Richard Tobin
Date: Fri, 04 May 1990 13:25
Date: Fri, 04 May 1990 13:25
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From: Richard Tobin <richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk> >>"... The term POSIX is expected to be pronounced pahz-icks, as in positive, >>not poh-six, or other variations." >Note that this assertion appears only in the rationale and the foreword, >not in the body of the standard. This is because the committee could not >standardize a pronunciation Just as well, especially considering that in much of the English-speaking world "positive" certainly does not begin with "pah". -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 104
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