[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/27/2018 7:16 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/26/18 9:42 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> POSIX ended up being "everybody look and act like Unix".
> 
> A standard was needed.  The majority of available Open Source
> Software was written for Unix/POSIX.  What would you have them
> do use the totally obscure and unknown VMS API as the basis
> for POSIX?

I believe the "vendor neutral" aspect was more important
for POSIX than open source.

POSIX is from 1988 and at the time open source as such
was not as dominant as now.

It is actually 10 years before the term "open source" was defined.

Arne