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Started by Jane Klobas - mgmt_staff
Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:54
Unix Wars Over (Query)
Author: Jane Klobas - mgmt_staff
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:54
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:54
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Submitted-by: jklobas@ecel.uwa.edu.au (Jane Klobas - mgmt_staff) An industry colleague recalls seeing a press release that stated that the "competing UNIX standards have merged". I recall a notice that suggested that SVID is supported by both OSF and UI. Of course, neither of us can locate the articles in which we think these statements occurred :-) Can anyone shed any light on this, either by confirming or refuting these statements, or by identifying the press release/article in which they appeared? - Jane Klobas Phone: +61 9 380 3567 Lecturer, Department of Management Fax: +61 9 380 1004 University of Western Australia email: jklobas@ecel.uwa.oz.au Nedlands WA 6009 Australia Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 13
Re: Unix Wars Over (Query)
Author: Simon Patience
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:31
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:31
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Submitted-by: sp@osf.org (Simon Patience) In article <17jq00INN7ei@ftp.UU.NET>, jklobas@ecel.uwa.edu.au (Jane Klobas - mgmt_staff) writes: > Submitted-by: jklobas@ecel.uwa.edu.au (Jane Klobas - mgmt_staff) > > An industry colleague recalls seeing a press release that stated that the > "competing UNIX standards have merged". I recall a notice that suggested > that SVID is supported by both OSF and UI. Of course, neither of us can > locate the articles in which we think these statements occurred :-) > Can anyone shed any light on this, either by confirming or refuting these > statements, or by identifying the press release/article in which they > appeared? I will not confirm/deny/comment on anything to do with "Unix wars" but what may help you are the facts that a) OSF/1 1.0 supported SVID 2 and OSF/1 1.1 supports SVID 3 and b) USL has just announced that System V will support OSFs AES (Application Environement Specification). Thus the same programming environment will exist on either system regardless of whether you developed to SVID or AES. OSF and UI/USL have always worked together anyway to ensure that these two specifications are not contradictory, this is just another step in the co-operation. Simon. -- Simon Patience Open Software Foundation Phone: +33-76-63-48-72 Research Institute FAX: +33-76-51-05-32 2 Avenue De Vignate Email: sp@gr.osf.org 38610 Gieres, France uunet!gr.osf.org!sp Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 17
Re: Unix Wars Over (Query)
Author: Guy Harris
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:33
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:33
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Submitted-by: guy@auspex.com (Guy Harris)
>Thus the same programming
>environment will exist on either system regardless of whether you developed to
>SVID or AES.
Well, the SVID and AES environments will exist on both systems; however,
an application may well want to use interfaces *not* in the SVID or AES.
For example, SVR4's run-time dynamic linking interface ("dlopen()",
"dlsym()", etc.) wasn't in the SVID, last time I looked (and yes, I
*did* look in the Third Edition, the SVR4 SVID). Dunno if OSF/1's
run-time dynamic linking interface is there or not (I believe it has
one).
(NOTE: "run-time dynamic linking interface", with the emphasis on
"run-time". This doesn't say anything about SVR4's or OSF/1's shared
library mechanisms, just about SVR4's and OSF/1's mechanisms to allow an
application to make calls to attach a lump of code, by file name, at run
time, with the file name possibly generated at run time, and to find
routines in that attached lump of code by name, with the routine name
possibly generated at run time.)
Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 18
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