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Re: try-this-for ?


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: try-this-for ?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:11:12 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux)

> POSIX

If you didn't know it, "Portable Operating
System Interface", ~1985. The X is for Unix and
the acronym was suggested by Richard Stallman.
The former designation was IEEE-IX so no wonder
they dropped it :)

One has to wonder about the "P" tho as it seems
portability is sort of the reason for any
standard - if it isn't portable, it isn't
a standard but a manual, right?

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