[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Dave Froble]

On 12/27/2018 8:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/27/18 11:14 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 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.
>
> While the term open source may  not have been as common as it is
> now some of us have been working on open source projects since
> at least 1980.  comp.sources.unix comp.sources.misc comp.sources.sun
> And lets not forget vmsnet.sources
>
> bill
>

One might suggest the DECUS library ...

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