[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>But it seems like this person did not really understand the
>Posix standard (from that time).
>
>His main argument seems to be that it is not useful.
>
>I believe that.
>
>But that is the limitation of Posix (from that time).

This is entirely true.  The Posix libraries in theory would let you run
unix applications on non-Unix systems but in fact they were never useful
enough to run anything much.

>VMS Posix was not considered useful by many either.

No, it wasn't useful.  It met certain requirements for certain government
purchases, which is why it was designed, but it was not actually useful
for anyone porting code.
--scott
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