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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4862 comp.os.386bsd.misc:882 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!etrog!kjb From: kjb@cgl.citri.edu.au (Kendall Bennett) Subject: POSIX, COSE and 386BSD - How do they fit in? Message-ID: <kjb.747366876@manda.cgl.citri.edu.au> Keywords: POSIX, COSE, 386BSD Sender: news@etrog.se.citri.edu.au Organization: Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute Date: 7 Sep 93 01:54:36 GMT Lines: 27 I have been reading recently in Australia about the flurry of activity that has appeared because of the interest in the Common Operating Systems Environment (COSE) proposed by 90% of the Unix vendor market. COSE is supposedly a move to standardise on the Unix application programming API across the board, so that you can write an app on your DEC workstation, and compile and run in on a Sun without changing a line of source code. Sounds like a great move to me, but I was wondering how POSIX fits into this scheme? Isn't this what POSIX was intended to do anyway? Is POSIX and integral part of COSE, or is it something separate? Then of course, how does this fit in with the different variants of operating systems, such as BSD and System V? Does this mean that System V, BSD and so on are dead, and all new operating systems will be COSE (although they still may be SysV or BSD internally)? How does this fit in with 386BSD? Are plans underway to make 386BSD into a COSE compliant operating system, so we can compile and run all those lovely commercial Unix apps on our tiny machines at home? Post feedback to news, rather than via email as I am sure others will be interested in your response... +------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | Kendall Bennett | Internet: | | RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre | kjb@citri.edu.au | | CITRI Building, 723 Swanston Street | rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au | | Carlton Victoria 3053 AUSTRALIA. | | +------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+