[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Forster, Michael]

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de>
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 6:40 PM
To: info-vax at rbnsn.com <info-vax at rbnsn.com>
Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system


sapienzaf schrieb:

> b) What it tells me is that there have been (and are) many variations
> in how Unix and its derivatives are being implemented, and somebody
> was trying to make sense of it all by creating a set of standards that
> they should strive to meet.  The goal of POSIX was to allow
> portability of applications from one Unix variant to another.  It has
> failed in that goal,

Why that ?
Even before POSIX applications were much more portable between
the various Unices than between Unix and proprietary systems.

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